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  1. Top of the heap

    I much enjoyed the article on the award of "the country's first doctorate in composting" ("Where there's muck there's a doctorate", THES, March 19). My interest will somehow need to be conveyed to my...

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  2. Ins and outcomes

    In common with other university staff I have spoken to, I am appalled at the recent consultation document from the Institute for Learning and Teaching. From the start membership of this institute was...

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  3. Ins and outcomes

    I am not surprised that objections have been flooding in about the ILT's proposals ("A club no one wants to join", THES, April 9). It is not just that evidence must be presented to support 24...

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  4. Scholarship stifled by admin

    David Cannadine's analysis of what is wrong with British universities is on target ("Yale, Harvard, Bloomsbury", THES, April 16). British academia is overwhelmed with administrative demands....

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  5. Scholarship stifled by admin

    David Cannadine is right to point to the "debilitating combination of inadequate resources and excessive bureaucracy" in higher education as "lethal" to the making and sustaining of a creative...

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  6. Scholarship stifled by admin

    David Cannadine's proposal for a University of Bloomsbury is entirely wrong-headed. Birkbeck and University College London do indeed have strong international reputations in the humanities. They also...

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  7. Scholarship stifled by admin

    There is no real harm in playing Monopoly with the University of London, as David Cannadine does. But at least two of the pieces on his board - the Senate House Library and the institutes - have been...

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  8. Canon fire

    Antony Easthope ("Englit must transform itself", THES, April 16) sounds both bizarrely anachronistic and inconsistent. How many higher education departments, worldwide, now use the "Englit" label -...

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  9. Canon fire

    So English "must transform itself"? Where has Antony Easthope been hiding for the past ten (20) years? A survey of the undergraduate curriculum by the Council for College and University English last...

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  10. Canon fire

    "Whatever Hamlet meant in 1603 it meant something different to Dr Johnson, to Freud and to us. It will mean something different in future." Did Hamlet really have one uniform meaning in 1603, or for...

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  11. Unhealthy trend

    While it is commendable that more higher education students should go to further education colleges ("Cinderella steps out", THES, April 16), FE colleges do not have the tradition, or culture, of...

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  12. We must deny bullies a pulpit

    Why is bullying so prevalent in higher education and how can we deal with it? Cary Cooper reports. Workplace bullying is a widespread problem. When the Trades Union Congress set up a telephone hot-...

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  13. Make work part of study

    Every student, no matter their degree, ought to undertake work experience,says David Blunkett. Students today are increasingly applying for modern vocational courses, those related to information and...

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  14. Cutting edge

    Meteorites are fragments of history that can tell us about the beginnings of life itself I work at the Natural History Museum, leading a team of seven scientists, including two students, who...

  15. A Wellcome home?

    A bitter battle is being fought in Cambridge over plans to expand the Wellcome Trust's genome research centre. Kam Patel looks at the possible outcomes and the messages they will send In a few months...