Letter: QAA: a lesson in losing friends (3)
As we all crawl, exhausted, to the April close of the 2001 research assessment exercise, suggestions for a new exercise may be considered most unwelcome. Nevertheless there is a case for a campaign...
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Letter: Sandwich fees
Sandwich-year students regularly ask what they get for the 50 per cent tuition fee they pay on their year out (Letters, THES , April 13). They say a couple of visits from a supervisor and a couple of...
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Letter: Quicker remedies
It is hard to imagine that an education ombudsman working under the jurisdiction of university visitors will achieve the independence or impartiality required to comply with Article 6 of the Human...
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Letter: Changing minds
Alan Ryan writes (Letters, THES , April 13) that he does not believe me when I say, in my review of Andrew Malcolm's The Remedy , that I do not understand why he changed his mind about Malcolm's...
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Leader: 'Great-man' research theory put to the test
After the capital spending drought of recent years, the Joint Infrastructure Fund and its successor, the Science Research Investment Fund, are welcome. Many millions of pounds have been provided to...
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Leader: Mean measures have damaged expansion plans
As we approach a general election, the issue of student poverty and debt is likely to be the one higher education issue that registers on the public's seismograph. Expansion and the introduction of...
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