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  1. Letter: In all fairness...

    The report of the Schneider-Ross consultants who were brought in to look at Cambridge's equal opportunities performance unaccountably left out the students altogether (Soapbox, THES, January 26). "If...

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  2. Letter: 'Fame' rebuttal

    While it is always healthy to make space for a Whistleblowers column, it surely behoves The THES to produce balanced research on its stories ("'Fame school' hit by crisis of management", THES,...

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  3. Letter: Out-of-date medicine

    Linden West (Features, THES, January 19) uses a quote from an old article by us to support a stereotyped and outdated picture of undergraduate medical education. It is now a legal requirement that...

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  4. Letter: Tory defence danger

    The Conservative Party's proposal to privatise British universities would damage the country's economy and defence ("Tories' bold ideas need to show some substance", THES, January 26). Market forces...

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  5. Letter: Coffee break

    If teachers at Leeds University still have their own staff coffee room (Letters, THES, January 26), they should congratulate themselves on their good fortune and stop whingeing. Anthony Beck London

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  6. Letter: Golden oldies

    A notable feature of the table of vice-chancellors' pay was that many large increases were given to those in their final year before retirement ("Exit under a cloud with a pot of gold", THES, January...

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  7. Letter: Bottom lines

    I was interested to read that Baroness Warwick, with whom Association of University Teachers comrades might find it difficult to make small talk when they present our petition, represents UUK (...

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  8. Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (1)

    I work in the business school of a "new" university, and most of my students, like those of Frank Furedi, are here only "to get a better job" ("Why I ... think universities are becoming anti-...

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  9. Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (2)

    A worrying trend towards what I perceive to be "educational Taylorism" prevails in universities. Many students feel like battery hens - force-fed information solely to produce a perfect exam answer....

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  10. Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (3)

    There has been an increasing trend to view the purpose of universities as the production of streams of "work-ready" graduates. Unfortunately, the real losers in this process are the students, who do...

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  11. Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (5)

    In Student Focus (THES, January 19), Frank Furedi points to lowest common denominator undergraduate courses devised to meet access targets, while Diane Purkiss contrasts teaching for the bright and...

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  12. Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (4)

    Frank Furedi highlights the difficulty of challenging students intellectually. This problem will grow as younger colleagues are initiated into the Quality Assurance Agency-led culture of reductionist...

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  13. Daily TV & radio - Friday

    Novel Russia (11.00 am R4). Present-day Russia explored by Martin Wainwright via the themes of great Russian novels, beginning with Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment . Culture Fix: Postmodernism (1....

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  14. Crushed by the harrow

    The notion of agriculture as an advance in society is wrong - 'potato growers' are more aggressive but no more superior than hunter-gatherers, Hugh Brody tells Chris Bunting. Hugh Brody has friends...

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  15. Better home, better health

    Urban regeneration improves not just the homes people live in, says Peter Ambrose, it also improves their health. Its downside, however, is that it makes life costlier, he tells Anne McHardy. Peter...

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