Getting personal
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Unappealing visitor
The Oxbridge Visitor system is even more iniquitous than your article indicates ("Visitor is unwelcome in law", THES, September 3). In 1988, as a Cambridge PhD student, I appealed to the visitor, the...
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Balancing act
You report ("Science loses out to Brit hype", THES, September 3) that the British Council has cut back its exchanges programmes in favour of exhibitions and publicity campaigns. This is not the case...
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Little room to talk
As a founder of one of the fraternities like Pyrates, Buccaneer and Black Axe when he was a student at the University of Ibadan in the 1960s and now safely ensconced with a visiting professorship in...
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Easy ways to raise dropout rate
Student dropout rates are now about 20 per cent ("UCAS accused over dropouts", THES, September 3) and research is in hand to discover the reasons. It is indeed a puzzle. I was recently asked to...
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Easy ways to raise dropout rate
It is good to find a member of the Quality Assurance Agency board questioning the QAA approach to judging teaching quality, and Roger Williams is absolutely right in questioning the use of numerical...
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Rocket over squib
How extraordinary that the chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, Tony Higgins, should hazard the view that the Association of University Teachers admissions boycott was...
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Bucket of salt
I am sorry to disappoint Tom Schuller, whose chivalrous defence of Lady Blackstone and David Blunkett displays great good nature (Letters, THES, August ). I really do think their vision of higher...
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Global crisis
Copying (as I am) one person's work or saying without acknowledgment is surely "plagiarism", but copying many people's is called "research"... Well, Stevan Harnad's use and naming of behaviourist B....
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Direct update
Callers to Learning Direct have not been given out of date or incomplete information ("Helpline unhelpful", THES, September 3). Advisers have access to the largest database of learning opportunities...
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Critical accounting
Your report (Whistleblowers, THES, September 3) that Oxford Brookes University is to award accounting degrees to part-qualified vocational students of the Association of Chartered Certified...
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Why I...think regulators are prejudiced against tests that do not use animals
To predict the effect of a chemical on people, scientists have traditionally looked at that chemical's effects on animals. Classical toxicology works on the premise of a similarity between animals...
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Open minds open doors
Psychoanalysis merits academic attention for its insights into the subjective business of learning, argues Joseph Schwartz One of the most astonishing features of Freud's achievement was his creation...
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Lancaster team attempts to steal away to Sheffield
Sheffield University is trying to clinch the transfer of a top-rated chemistry research group from Lancaster in a deal that could boost its research assessment exercise ratings. The proposal to...
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Newby: address staff issues now
University chiefs have been warned by their new president that they must urgently tackle questions over staff pay, contracts, and equal opportunities if they want the government to spend more on...