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  5. In demand in Vietnam

    Contrary to your report ("Vietnamese students snubbed on return home", THES , May 31), graduates with a UK qualification, whether self-funded or on scholarships, have been in high demand in the...

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  6. Liberties taken

    I have always assumed that Sydney Smith's labour-saving principle - "I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so" - is never adopted, but Peter Watson, in reviewing Isaiah Berlin'...

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  7. Christianity, aisle 3

    The Muslim students who discuss personal religious issues with me argue in the essentialist terms that C. W. Watson derides ("Open up to a very creative culture", THES , June 14). These students say...

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  8. End this ageist era

    I hope John Black (Letters, THES , June 21) is wrong when he thinks of himself as past his sell-by date at 55. By 2006, age discrimination will be unlawful. But education will be excluded. The...

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  9. Our price is right

    Lancaster University has no intention of abandoning its collegiate system or of offering accommodation only at high rents, as was implied in a caption on page 3 last week. The university was founded...

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  10. Classification treatise

    Brothers and sisters, pernicious arguments have been circulating of late proposing the abolition of degree classification. The malevolent sects responsible for these perverse opinions must be refuted...

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  11. Dynamism's dark side

    I read "Dynamic sector demands respect" ( THES , June 21) with trepidation, particularly a comment on a Universities UK report: "The government's desire to expand and diversify provision while...

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  12. English saviours and pseuds 1

    Anyone might think that English literature was in the doldrums after reading last week's THES . First came the news that "Manchester admits 'sexism and hostility'" then, in features, Bob Eaglestone...

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  13. English saviours and pseuds 2

    If "lit critters" really want to "sell" themselves, they should write comprehensible English. Even though I have a PhD in literature, I am baffled by the labyrinthine syntax and jargon-ridden prose...

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  14. English saviours and pseuds 3

    Bob Eagleston's hype that literary studies is a "unique and important way of understanding contemporary problems" would be more persuasive were it not a field so permeated by philosophical and...

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  15. Customer questions 1

    Stephen Burwood is correct: students are not customers ("Customer concerns", THES , June 21). As customers, we rarely aspire to perform the role of the person serving us; as students, we commonly do...

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