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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. Anti-social science 2

    My sympathy goes out to Steven Cotgrove about whom Harry Collins reminisces,"we beat him up mercilessly". Surely it ought to be possible to engage in critical debate without resorting to such a...

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  12. In brief 1

    David Triesman's undergraduate dissertation, referred to by Professor Lapping (Laurie Taylor, THES , June 7), is thought by some scholars to be an early draft of his paper on creating "The university...

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  13. In brief 2

    David Miliband's father, Ralph, was never a professor at the London School of Economics (In the News, THES , May 31). When he left the LSE in 1972 he was a senior lecturer, having been denied...

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  14. In brief 3

    Maggie Pearson is wrong not to worry where the funding comes from for medical education ("Harassed, pulled every which way, but committed to her workers", THES , June 7). University-level education...

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  15. Showing support 1

    We were saddened by the suggestion that Middlesex University declined to collaborate with Touro College, New York, on the grounds that it is a Jewish college ("Jewish college snubbed", THES , May 31...

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