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  4. Bite back at bite-sized 1

    Modules were introduced into higher education in the UK via the Open University, not directly from the US as Bob Brecher asserts ("Fast food is no substitute for an intellectual feast", THES , June 7...

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  5. Bite back at bite-sized 2

    To blame the death of intellect on modularity is interesting but wrong. The culprit is the semester. Forcing the curriculum and assessment into 15-week chunks leads to atomisation and discontinuity....

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  6. Illogical logic

    Ian McDonald's article (Features, THES , June 7) contains a blinding self-contradiction. He argues that science and argument have discredited "scientific" racism. And then he talks about attempts to...

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  7. Showing support 2

    As academics at an Israeli university we have been associated with Middlesex University for 18 months, and have come to respect the initiatives, efforts and hard work invested by Ken Goulding and his...

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  8. Showing support 3

    While I do not support an academic boycott of Israeli universities (Letters, THES , June 7), it has been impossible to conduct my own long-standing academic links with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip...

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  9. Scholarship boost

    "Invitations for gifted cousins" ( THES , June 7) provides a timely reminder of the continuing need for scholarships to Commonwealth countries. The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission this year has...

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  10. Orphans and liars only

    Roy Lee-Faulkner (Letters, THES , May 31) suggests there is a research opportunity on the sudden family death phenomenon among students at examination time. I regret to tell him the matter has...

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  11. Why put-upon academics quit UK 1

    I, like Alan Ryan, have a special fondness for my Oxford college, Magdalen ("Why I...", THES , May 31). Like him, I am packing for a trip to the west coast of the US, although to join the Salk...

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  12. Why put-upon academics quit UK 2

    Full marks to Mary Evans for highlighting the compliance culture suffocating universities (Soapbox, THES , May 31). Fear and apathy feed this. Young, new academics are reluctant to challenge the "new...

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  13. New angle, old debate? 1

    The assertion (Opinion, THES , June 7) that your tables of A-level scores achieved by students admitted to higher education show which are "the easiest and hardest British universities to get into"...

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  14. New angle, old debate? 2

    Including the Open University in your analysis of A-level grades of university entrants (Analysis, THES , June 7), would have confounded your pre and post-1992 universities dichotomy. Since its...

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  15. Anti-social science 1

    Sociologist Harry Collins notes (Books, THES , June 7) that the idea of a "science of society" has been so thoroughly squashed that "post-modernist carpet-baggers roam at will". On the following page...

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