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  3. Laurie Taylor

    Anything interesting in this week's THES ? Not really. There is another Don's Diary written by some lucky sod who's wangled enough conference expenses to get him to the South of France. And then...

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  4. Letter: Undo unilateral changes

    The changes management made to the staff contract at the University of Westminster were not disclosed, let alone discussed or agreed, with Natfhe before implementation ("Local row threatens national...

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  5. Letter: We seek truth, public seeks Oprah (1)

    Frank Furedi's encomium of public intellectuals in the US is misleading ("An intellectual vacuum", THES , October 5). Furedi writes: "Individuals such as Susan Sontag, Henry Louis Gates, Edward Said...

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  6. Letter: We seek truth, public seeks Oprah (2)

    Few of Britain's Nobel prizewinners are or were "public" intellectuals. Most of them hid. Even today, the names of winners are usually unknown to the public. Funding bodies want academics in the...

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  7. Letter: We seek truth, public seeks Oprah (3)

    Frank Furedi misses two key factors. First, there are relatively few media outlets in Britain compared with the US, and those that exist already have a base of intellectual resources: journalists....

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  8. Letter: We seek truth, public seeks Oprah (4)

    A few days before reading Frank Furedi's article, I heard a senior academic explain this year's increased focus on research methodology training to a group of new PhDs. Most of your time in your...

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  9. Letter: Pure religious hatred

    This letter is intended to be an incitement to religious hatred. I believe it is not yet a crime to encourage people to despise religion and almost all it stands for, but as time is running out for...

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  10. Letter: Technical hitches

    So the new Engineering and Technology Board will persuade universities to train more incorporated engineers and technicians (For the record, THES , September 28). Although there is much overlap in...

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  11. Letter: Get over the age barrier

    The bulge of over-50s will soon lead to a dearth of academics and is seen as a problem ("Ageing staff cohort threatens expansion", THES , October 5). In strict demographic terms this is correct, but...

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  12. Letter: Long-lived labour

    Patrick Joyce has long been predicting the demise of labour history ("Marx moves over to make room for new lot of rebels", THES , October 12), but we're still here. Admittedly in the age of new...

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  13. Letter: Looming gap year (1)

    Have education ministers Margaret Hodge or Estelle Morris planned the financial support British universities will need to survive the crisis engineered by telling students not to come to university...

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  14. Letter: Looming gap year (2)

    Surely no one would disagree that students "deserve better treatment in the changing education system" (Letters, THES , October 5)? In my experience, lecturers show a lot of sympathy towards students...

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  15. Master class in 'cheating'

    David Hockney believes that the only way the past masters achieved near photographic quality in some paintings was through optical trickery. Martin Kemp reports. It is so realistic that it looks like...

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