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  2. 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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  3. Fast food for thought

    The Liberating Power of Symbols - The Postnational Constellation

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  7. Laurie Taylor

    "The University of North London and London Guildhall University are paying a 'five-figure fee' for work on a new logo" - THES, April 5 . Item 12: Redesigning the Poppleton logo. Professor Comstock...

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  8. Leader: Can there really be too many female doctors?

    It is less than 150 years since Elizabeth Garrett Anderson became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain, against the massed opposition of a white, male profession. It is only 40 years...

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    #Opinion

  9. Leader: It's a smart move to support your vice-chancellor

    Who runs universities? To the chagrin of vice-chancellors, as accountability and funding difficulties have come to bear, governing bodies, be they councils (of old universities) or governing boards (...

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    #Opinion

  10. 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...

    #Letters

  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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