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  1. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an essay that inspired Gandhi and Martin Luther King: "I heartily accept the motto, - 'That government...

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  4. In brief 1

    Exams are almost over and exam boards loom. At my university we encourage undergraduates to ask for extenuating circumstances to be taken into consideration. The evidence is pouring in. This group...

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  5. In brief 2

    The pseudonymous Mr Brogan ("Part-time post: long hours, atrocious pay", THES , May 17) is lucky to have any teaching and visiting lectureships at all - chance would be a fine thing. And £12 an hour...

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  6. Border lines

    Sara Parkin argues that the government is not promoting education for sustainable development (Opinion, THES , May 17). Which government? The Welsh Assembly has a constitutional commitment to...

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  7. Pull research back from brink 1

    Wendy Piatt's contribution to the tuition-fee debate (Soapbox, THES , May 24) left me asking: what do they research at the Institute for Public Policy Research? Not economics and logic. But Piatt did...

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  8. Pull research back from brink 2

    Since 1992, universities such as Plymouth have worked to broaden the research base in higher education and move beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries to develop new areas of interdisciplinary...

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  9. Open your mind 1

    Andrew Oswald says that the meaning of the word "university" is being despoiled by policy-making ("A victim of vocabulary", THES , May 24). Reasserting the university as a research-based organisation...

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  10. Open your mind 2

    We risk losing the meaning of "university" amid financial pressures and widening participation. "Mass" support for preserving meaning and a rejection of the juggling of research required by the...

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  11. Chinese riddle

    Geoffrey Sampson says his comments on race "were informed by years of study of Chinese civilisation" ("Professor under fire for racist views", THES , May 17). No work by him has come before any...

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  12. Gender clarity 1

    I sympathise with my academic peers (Letters, THES , May 24). With only the feature "Sink schools" ( THES , May 17) to go on, I, too, might conclude that I was narcissistic, envious and fearful. But...

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  13. Gender clarity 2

    As women are frequent casualties of departments playing the research assessment exercise lottery, it is good to see their achievements being honoured in the national teaching fellowship awards (For...

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  14. Skill-judged 1

    Employers do not understand what higher education is if the Council for Industry and Higher Education survey comments are to be believed ("Involve employers in making graduates employable", THES ,...

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  15. Skill-judged 2

    So universities need to teach working-class students social and life skills so that they may earn as much as their middle-class peers ("'Unwashed' must brush up on their social skills", THES , May 17...

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