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  3. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by a novelist who was once a policeman: "U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, in Upper Burma...

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  4. Fast food for thought

    The Liberating Power of Symbols - The Postnational Constellation

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  8. Divided on quality (1)

    Imagine that a Quality Assurance Agency panel encountered a department that could not tell students whether they would be required to sit a final examination, when that exam might take place, what...

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  9. Divided on quality (2)

    Australia's quality chief David Woodhouse (Letters, THES , April 5) wilfully misreads my article (Features, THES , March 22). I did not base my argument on "the analogy with financial audit". My...

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  10. Divided on quality (3)

    David Woodhouse makes the strange assertion that Michael Loughlin's article is UK-centred. Why not, if that is what Loughlin set out to analyse? Woodhouse thinks academics waste their time by...

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  11. In brief (1)

    In Tony Tysome's full-page encomium for Cardiff University, the word "teaching" does not appear (Analysis, THES , April 5). It is as if Cardiff were an elite research institute, not a place getting...

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  12. In brief (2)

    The THES Diary (April 5) reported that the textbook Decision Analysis for Management Judgment costs £16.04 secondhand and £15.99 new on the amazon.co.uk website. As one of the authors, I recommend:...

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  13. In brief (3)

    Now that the Association for University Teachers' election for general secretary is over, I would like to express my gratitude to Paul Cottrell, who stood in as acting general secretary. The union's...

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  14. Creating a storm (1)

    Pity the poor university chaplain who believes in evolution and tries to help students relate their religious ideas to what they are learning but is obliged to compete against fringe Christian groups...

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  15. Creating a storm (2)

    I am pleased to see academics of other disciplines defending biological sciences against the pseudo-scientific arguments of creationists (Letters, THES April 5). As well as attacking the scientific...

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