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  1. Abreast of industry

    The claim that 80 per cent of computing graduates are lost to UK industry comes from a comparison of incompatible and incomplete statistics that does not stand up to serious scrutiny ("Industry...

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  2. Feed the trees' roots

    Audits, league tables and the desire to lessen student problems and improve performance are leading to the demise of difficult but fundamental subjects that provide a foundation for the understanding...

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  3. Costs of top-up fees 1

    You report ("Top-up fees trigger Russell rift", THES , November 1) that a "hard core" of Russell Group universities might take a unilateral decision to charge substantial top-up fees. If they expose...

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  4. Costs of top-up fees 2

    I thought class warriors had died with new Labour. Clearly not, if Abigail McKnight's views are representative (Soapbox, THES , November 1). To expect the parents of children who attend independent...

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  5. Credit's on its way

    The Welsh Assembly is committed to achieving a credit and qualifications framework embracing all post-16 and higher education by 2003 ("Changing courses is no problem", THES , October 18). This...

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  6. Media attractions

    I have argued for years that disseminating academic work through the media has far more advantages than disadvantages ("Celebrity snares", THES , November 1). The media provide publicity for...

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  7. Pick 'n' mix 1

    It is a shame to see a good joke being mangled ("Check emails, fix up meeting with councillors, buy Kit Kat", THES , November 1). The original question was: "What's the difference between a non-...

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  8. Pick 'n' mix 2

    The new Higher Education Policy Institute is evidently as unaware as the Department for Education and Skills of the government's aim for equality in public life (Diary, THES , November 1). But...

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  9. Laurie Taylor Column

    International students will be invited to write "a letter home" from their UK university in a new British Council competition - THES, November 1 . Dear Mother I am writing to you in English so that I...

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  10. Leader: Top-up fees look like the only game in town

    For a master politician skilled at evading the question, Tony Blair has barely disguised his intentions on top-up fees in the fortnight since they shot up the political agenda. While refusing to give...

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  11. Leader: Why couldn't a new year start in January?

    Universities have claimed for years that they wanted a post A-level admissions system, while simultaneously insisting that it could not be done. How ironic that the moment real progress was being...

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  12. Is imagination more important than knowledge? Einstein

    Berlin, 1929. The poet and journalist George Sylvester Viereck has charmed an interview out of an initially reluctant superstar physicist¹. He asks: "How do you account for your discoveries? Through...

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  13. Benefit to womb from a view

    'And this is a picture of your ovaries.' Geoff Watts examines the radical methods being used to teach trainee doctors good bedside manners. When doctors have finished examining the nooks and crannies...

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  14. Money back guaranteed?

    If top-up fees are adopted, demand for data on what students can expect to earn from their degrees will grow. Chris Bunting reports. In Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure , a young Jude talks to...

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  15. Take away the books and chairs collapse

    Is the monograph dead? Stephen Phillips reports on US scholars' search for alternative publishing opportunities on the route to tenure. Tracing the academic food chain back, most US humanities...

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