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  1. Study snack won't last a lifetime 1

    The view that modular courses examined at the end of a semester lead to lower levels of educational attainment ("Students choke on bite-sized learning" and Leading article, THES , October 4) is...

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  2. Study snack won't last a lifetime 2

    Please do not confuse "modularisation" with "semesterisation". Coventry University has a modular system but, apart from a small number of courses, has never been semesterised. Almost all of our...

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  3. Study snack won't last a lifetime 3

    It is hard to reconcile your critique of semesters with your admiration for top US universities. No one has demeaned my Massachusetts Institute of Technology education because it was organised in 15-...

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  4. Independent question

    In responding to my complaints about Luton University appointment procedures (Whistleblowers, THES , September ), pro vice-chancellor Tim Boatswain quotes a Bedford employment tribunal judgment and...

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  5. Pros of cultural capital

    As a bilingual British citizen from a refugee background, home secretary David Blunkett's statement urging parents from bilingual backgrounds to speak English at home disturbs me. I have seen many...

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  6. Cause for complaint

    David Warner misses the root cause of why so many students complain to outside agencies (Soapbox, THES , October 4). It is because the internal mechanisms for resolving complaints involves the...

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  7. Volunteers unite

    Frank Furedi presents two types of volunteering: traditional and instrumental ("For the greater good of my CV", THES , September ). He says government-driven volunteering to encourage social re-...

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  8. A far cry from crisis

    Your article "Universities dig in for showdown over targets" ( THES , September 6) reports that the Association of University Teachers has named eight universities that could be "left to go to the...

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  9. In brief 1

    The juxtaposition of an alarming prediction that "physicists might produce a tiny bubble that expands at nearly the speed of light, destroying first Earth, then the solar system, then all the stars...

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  10. In brief 2

    Lancaster University's bond issue in 1985 did not fail but successfully raised £35 million and is now AAA credit rated ("PFI deal makes economic sense, says university", THES , October 4). The...

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  11. In brief 3

    Alex Danchev describes The Shield of Achilles by Philip Bobbit (Books, THES , September ) as an " opus heroicus ". It is an " opus heroicum ". Michael Bulley Dijon, France

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  12. Laurie Taylor column

    British Journal of Comparative Cultural Studies From the editor Dear Dr Piercemuller, I am sorry to take up your valuable time, but in the wake of the Bell Labs scandal, our editorial board is...

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  13. Leader: Tackle suspicion that plagues UK admissions

    The crisis of confidence in A levels might have been expected to lessen any controversy over the efforts of leading universities to boost the share of places going to state-educated students. After...

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  14. Held hostage by history

    Through the stories of captives, Linda Colley found an alternative image of the British Empire that had itself been locked away, writes Karen Gold. When the British historian Linda Colley met her...

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  15. Was it mistake or was it malice?

    Alison Utley talks to an academic who lost a libel case. This case really isn't about me, it is about all the trauma that so many families have been through over so many years," says Richard Barker....

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