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  1. Higher costs and greater gains 2

    The £5,000-a-year figure bandied about for tuition fees in the UK does not bear scrutiny. The private University of Buckingham charges £1,800 a term - £5,400 for a three-term year. It gets no public...

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  2. Higher costs and greater gains 3

    Students do not buy an education. They work to get a degree. To get good degrees, they work hard and are out of the labour market. Graduates may get high salaries, but this is because employers pay...

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  3. Streamline degrees

    Kevin Malone is right: it takes more than six to 12 months to produce a musician, a dancer or a doctor, indeed far more than three or four years of graduate study (Letters, THES, December 13). But...

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  4. Talking up Fleming 1

    Milton Wainwright (Letters, THES, November 22) criticises my feature (THES, November 15) for questioning Sir Alexander Fleming's contribution to the development of antibiotics. Neither I nor other...

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  5. Talking up Fleming 2

    Having worked under Sir Alexander Fleming and published three papers to correct myths and misinformation about penicillin's discovery, I wish to comment on John Waller's article. Waller's statement...

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  6. In brief 1

    Laurie Taylor is wrong to call the publication of Alison Wolf's Does Education Matter? a "wholly original" event. Duke Maskell and Ian Robinson open their The New Idea of a University (2001) by...

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  7. In brief 2

    Contract research staff are not the only university employees to benefit from the removal of fixed-term contracts ("Surrey contract staff win job security", THES, December 6). Loughborough University...

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  8. In brief 3

    Thames Water's graduate recruitment manager reportedly slates an applicant for saying "I was really keen to work for BP but I didn't get through so I applied to you" and another who said his...

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  9. Faith simply portrayed

    The front-page headline "Mary Warnock looks for God in a racy text" with a stained-glass image of the patriarch himself, inappropriately signalled your religious studies book reviews (THES, December...

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  10. Conscious objector

    Why did Susan Greenfield agree to review David Lodge's Consciousness and the Novel when she is self-confessedly not a literary expert ("Minds meet on a two-way street", THES, December 6)? Greenfield'...

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  11. AUT is all for fairness

    I was surprised that the Higher Education Funding Council for England accepts the excuses from some higher education institutions that the Association of University Teachers is delaying the use of...

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  12. Laurie Taylor Column

    From: The Office of the Vice-Chancellor To: All Members of Academic Staff Dear Colleagues Yes, it is Christmas once more. But as we look forward to the festive pleasures of yuletide we should not...

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  14. Leader: What good is a boom if languages go bust?

    The focus of the government's languages strategy is, rightly, on schools. But the impact will be felt in higher education before long, and it is hard to imagine it being positive. By encouraging...

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  15. Merry Christmas

    The latest news service is taking a break over the festive period and will resume on 2 January 2003.

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