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  1. Letter: Dynamic research

    I am no fan of the research assessment exercise, not least because it tends to regard numbers of outputs in a narrow range of refereed journals as evidence of research quality. However, the social...

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  2. Letter: Prudence and the bill

    You suggest that increased public spending on infrastructure could not be part of "any prudent economic policy" (Leader, THES , July 20). Private, voluntary, and not-for-profit provision is valuable...

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  3. Letter: False splitting image

    Your leader ( THES , July 6) linked projected financial problems in the National Union of Students with the alleged behaviour of NUS officers four years ago in order to question the whole ethos of...

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  4. Letter: Shore-up not shatter

    Redbridge College's failure to reach government teaching standards ("Colleges given ultimatum after Ofsted reports", THES , July 13) is hardly surprising when 25 per cent of staff left this year, six...

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  5. Letter: Firm foundations (1)

    Gillian Howie's view of the Institute for Learning and Teaching as "vapid and costly" (Letters, THES , July 20) is held by many who belong to professional associations. In the publications of the...

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  6. Letter: Firm foundations (2)

    Here we go again. The University of Liverpool's anti-ILT phalanx shooting from the hip with the same old misdirected anti-management musings. At the University of Salford, I am part of a team that...

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  7. Letter: Partners key to libraries' future (1)

    David Wells (Soapbox, THES , July 13) argues that university libraries have failed "to cater adequately for the research needs of their employees for more than a generation", thereby making the...

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  8. Letter: Partners key to libraries' future (2)

    It is depressing at the beginning of the 21st century to read an article suggesting that the British Library should cater only for the intellectual elite. Information should be available to anyone...

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  9. Letter: In brief (1)

    Proponents of a "Darwinian-based theory of literature" observe that our ability to tell stories is as much a product of evolution as our ability to make tools. They therefore declare all other...

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  10. Letter: In brief (2)

    News that the London School of Economics and Imperial College are collaborating ("LSE to achieve clout via alliance", THES, July 20) is a bit like the romance between Helen and Paul on Big Brother ....

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  11. Letter: In brief (3)

    Ann Oakley gives a clue as to why the life of a university lecturer has become so miserable (Soapbox, THES , July 20). Educationists are remorselessly turning education into centralised processing...

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  12. Letter: In brief (4)

    Brenda Gourley's appointment at the Open University (News, THES , July 20) prompts me to ask if this is the first time a vice-chancellor's name has included the acronym of their institution? Peter...

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  13. Business versus the Bible

    Fundamentalist Christians want it stopped; scientists believe it could save millions of lives and be worth billions of dollars. Stephen Phillips reports on the stem-cell dilemma facing President Bush...

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  14. A theory unified by telescope and lab

    In the second of our Big Science Questions, Sir Martin Rees ponders the origin of the universe, while Martin Ince juggles the pieces of a cosmic puzzle. In many cultures, the origin of the universe...

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  15. Latest UK news

    'Fragrant Mary' seeks solar solace Mary Archer today made her first public appearance since her husband was jailed, at a summer school on solar energy at the University of Strathclyde. Lady Archer, a...

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