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  2. Career fallout from a legal blast 3

    Richard Barker's claim that he lost his libel case because of a clash between two different systems that use different languages is self-serving humbug. The trial was about a clash not of systems and...

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  3. Career fallout from a legal blast 1

    It is not often that I agree with Richard Webster's views about child abuse but his call for Richard Barker, who led the Shieldfield inquiry, to resign from Northumbria University or be dismissed...

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  4. Career fallout from a legal blast 2

    I am a colleague of Richard Barker, although I do not know him personally. I do, however, know something about the psychology of child testimony, having published in that area. I cannot agree with...

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  5. Language lessons 1

    Gary Day rightly takes people to task for bastardising English but he unfairly tars all managers with the same brush (Why I, THES , October 11). Linguistic excesses are every bit as likely to be...

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  6. Language lessons 2

    More pernicious than "bureaucratese" is the misuse of language to distort meaning. Take learning, for example. It is neither delivered nor provided. It is learners who learn. There is also a...

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  7. Language lessons 3

    At the Conservative Party Conference, law student Georgina Hill argued that taxpayers would get a better deal from having "less universities" and "less obscure and, frankly, worthless degrees" ("...

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  8. Head in clouds

    Could the illusion of the moon appearing larger when near the horizon be explained by how we see clouds? ("Lunar puzzle that has clues but no answers", Books, THES , October 4). Suppose we have a...

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  9. Modules work in US

    Modular courses came about as combined honours courses, which had lower student entry requirements than traditional honours degrees ("Students choke on bite-sized learning", THES , October 4; Letters...

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  10. No Berlusconi stooge

    Domenico Pacitti's review of Paul Ginsborg's Italy and its Discontents (Books, THES , September ) offers a highly distorted view of the book's contents as well as of its author. He accuses Ginsborg...

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  11. No place for Yiddish

    London University's School of Oriental and African studies is no place for serious Jewish studies. It has too few lecturers and the ideological environment is uncomfortable ("Outcry as Soas drops...

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  12. Who audits the audit?

    Audit is usually associated with testing veracity rather than with seeking to raise standards ("A system poisoned by deceit", THES , October 4). The focus can be the system of accountability from...

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  13. Man U study offside 1

    The basis of Adam Brown's research that the provenance of Manchester United fans can be determined by reference to the address to which the season ticket is sold will cause wry amusement here in...

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  14. Man U study offside 2

    Has the THES really nothing better to include on its front cover than a report on a known Manchester United fan and club apologist's work? Even more baffling is that the Economic and Social Research...

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  15. Bucking pay trend

    Geoffrey Copland asserts that this year's pay award is "innovative and reasonable" (Letters, THES , October 4). The Universities and Colleges Employers Association commissioned the 1999 Bett report...

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