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  7. Say no to touchy-feely simplicity 1

    Michael Wood's contention that intellectual evolution may stop unless learning is made easier (Soapbox, THES , August 30) is disastrous in its implications. There is a big difference between...

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  8. Say no to touchy-feely simplicity 2

    Reading Michael Wood's "I'll make it simple", I was struggling to choose its single most misguided notion. Not wishing to give up, I offer the following example of its absurd touchy-feely commercial...

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  9. Say no to touchy-feely simplicity 3

    If you set Frank Furedi's piece on universities failing the Trade Descriptions Act (Features, THES , August 16) alongside the leading article on "degrees retaining market value" ( THES , August 30),...

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  10. Get real about returns

    Professors of public economics should not make the kind of errors betrayed in Nick Barr's comments on the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development report on graduate earnings ("UK...

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  11. No corporate threat

    The main purpose of the corporate university is to act as a platform for business development (Leading article, THES , August 23). As the main learning objectives are a response to the competitive...

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  12. Measure of success

    The third mission of a university is not to make money ("Spin-off funding spells danger", THES , August 30) but rather to impart new knowledge to business and the community - having first generated...

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  13. Rigour at risk

    Birmingham University's official reply to our subject association's protest letter at the closure of the cultural studies and sociology department tells us the university proposes to "re-position the...

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  14. Natural urge to survive

    Olivia Judson says we cannot look to nature for moral guidance (Why I..., THES , August 30). Yet we learn from every organism that has existed over the past 4 billion years that the primary moral...

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  15. Adoption above board

    The heading "Child trade on rise, study finds" and the introductory paragraphs ( THES , August 30) misrepresent my research findings. The words "trafficking of children" appear nowhere in my report...

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