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  1. In brief 1

    Schools and universities planning to drop languages should consider that foreign companies need staff with knowledge of their tongues ("Languages come under threat", THES , July 12). Such graduates...

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  2. In brief 2

    I am unsure how to catalogue the statement from the Department for Education and Skills (For the record, THES , July 26) that higher education applications are "a free market". Do I file it under the...

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  3. In brief 3

    I've no idea who wrote "A Green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head", (First Impressions, THES , July 26) but can I suggest a competition to compose a limerick starting, "A...

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  4. Pipe dream flushes out critics 1

    Ruth Lea perpetuates the myth that universities have nothing to do with vocational education ("Best way to a plumb job", THES , July 26). But whether it is engineering, accountancy, biotechnology,...

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  5. Pipe dream flushes out critics 2

    It is good to hear that plumbers are exempt from the mass mobilisation into higher education. For a while it looked as though snatch squads would have to be sent in to media studies departments to...

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  6. Pipe dream flushes out critics 3

    You correctly reported that "many academics see the government stress on employabil-ity as invasive of higher education values and driving good learning out" ("Key-skills drive may put study in the...

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  7. Jettison the jargon

    Graduate students need training in writing for the general public and only radical reform of doctoral programmes will attenuate what David Cannadine calls the "dismal prose or impenetrable jargon" of...

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  8. Gats gains and losses

    The US is on the hunt for overseas higher education markets, and the European Union looks like a prime target given its size and perceived "protectionism" ("V-cs seek openness in talks on free trade...

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  9. A search for style 1

    In response to Roger Lindsay (Letters, THES , July 26), we acknowledge that a marker's subject expertise might well be expected to affect assessment. However, in our study we found little evidence to...

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  10. Do you copy?

    Valerie Atkinson fails to advise on some fine opportunities for plagiarism presented by the worldwide web: simply put the material on a webpage and backdate it (Soapbox, THES , July 26). Any litigant...

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  11. Laurie Taylor

    All Members of Staff Department of media and cultural studies University of Poppleton Poppleton PP12 6HP Dear Everybody Just a brief note to let you know that I have arrived in Scarborough for my...

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  13. Leader: Teaching quality finale not the end of the story

    The publication of the last set of full teaching quality reports will be a cause for celebration for many in universities, if not for those choosing courses, who will have to make do with rather less...

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