Letter: Surveying's shallow foundations
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors bases its new partnership scheme on teaching quality assessment, the research assessment exercise, entry standards and student employability ("Surveying...
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Letter: Surveying's shallow foundations
As a member of the Partnerships and Accreditation Board (PAB) of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, I have consistently questioned and opposed three of the four threshold standards adopted...
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Letter: Ditch casual disregard
Chris Kynch (Soapbox, THES, February 9) is right to urge action to help casualised staff. All too often teaching quality is maintained only at the expense of grossly overworked part-time staff, and...
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Letter: Figure fetishes
Howard Allen implies that if teaching is effective, distributions of grades should be heavily skewed towards firsts and upper seconds (Teaching, THES, February 9). For too long, fetishes have been...
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Letter: Janet and adverts
Following Charles Crook's stimulating article ("Spare us logo land", THES, February 2) readers may be interested to know that the Joint Information Systems Committee ( http:///www.jisc.ac.uk/ ) is...
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Letter: Blooming marvellous
I note that the Academie Francaise has just elected its third woman member since the male monopoly was broken 20 years ago, (Worldwatch, THES, February 16). Given that members are traditionally...
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Letter: Give us a bit of credit
G. R. Evans describes the Schneider-Ross report on Cambridge's equality audit as damning (Letters, THES, February 2). Yes, the report pulls no punches in identifying weaknesses and issues that need...
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Letter: God vs goddess
So, the very serious Niall Ferguson laments a society in which "people pay more attention to the words of Nigella Lawson than to those of the archbishop of Canterbury" ("Want truth? Just follow the...
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Leader: Taylor options put v-cs on spot over tuition fees
Universities need more money. The Taylor report, published today by Universities UK, sets out figures showing the sector is underfunded by many hundreds of millions of pounds a year. And it talks...
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Dream of a world where people come before power
In this month's Oxford Amnesty Lectures, Peter Singer argues for a United Nations consisting only of countries dedicated to democracy and preservation of human rights. For much of the past century it...
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Drugs, guns and fights - all in a night's work
David Calvey took grave risks to research the life of a club bouncer. He spoke to Adam James. Dedicated clubbers will remember the ecstasy-energised era of "Madchester" in the 1990s. Some might also...
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A sunbaked yard: enter inmate, left
Theatre is helping Brazil's prison population to change... or escape for a while. Paul Heritage writes. The Brazilian composer Tom Jobim, who made the world swoon to the passing of that girl from...
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Why the hell of Carandiru had to erupt
Roy King has witnessed the inhuman conditions of the Brazilian prison where rioting inmates were killed this week. He spoke to Anne McHardy. This week's events in the House of Detention at Carandiru...
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Risks in overseas liaisons
When universities link up with institutions abroad, they can get more than they bargained for. Matthew Chapman reports. When it comes to promoting their courses, United States higher education...
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