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  1. Tight controls must not squeeze out innovation

    The 1980s and 1990s have seen the effect in Britain of carrot-based funding for universities and colleges. First cuts in university budgets drove colleges out into the world market in search of fee-...

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  2. Picky, coddled students? Make them read Beowulf

    Is our culture dumbing down? There is a dominant view in this heated debate that those who complain are bitter about easier access for more people to higher education and to a culture that was...

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  3. Figures withheld as child slaps the hand that feeds

    The government has announced that there are to be league tables for local authority social services as there are for schools and hospitals. The news came just days after the Universities and Colleges...

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  4. Part-time move merits praise

    Let's get some perspective. For decades, anyone seriously concerned with more equitable access to higher education will have had two items at the top of their agenda: more places, and a system of...

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  5. Eye of the beholder

    Stuart Hay's zealous defence of publishers is just a trifle disingenuous about the status of authors ("A hard-nosed publisher writesI", THES, February 19). I wrote my first book in the mid-1970s and...

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  6. Copyright clampdown

    There is a lot of copyright in a video. People writing, music-making and saying original things. There is intellectual property everywhere you look. And now, just as it is getting practical to stream...

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  7. No Jewish book ban

    This university does not place restrictions on our staff (or those in partner colleges) as to the books and articles they may recommend ("QAA slates ban on Jewish books", THES, February 19). We do...

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  8. Nurturing doubts

    In Michael Rutter's review (THES, January 22), my book was called The Nature Assumption. The actual title is The Nurture Assumption. It is a small difference but an important one, because Professor...

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  9. Elitism attacked

    As the debate about "dumbing down" develops, it is worthwhile adding a challenge to the received orthodoxy underlying this concern. First, concern about differing academic standards has been around...

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  10. Western misfitism

    Ray Monk ("Woodstock of the mind", THES, February 12) is probably right that description of consciousness rather than a science of it will meet the "craving" (what a Buddhist word) for understanding...

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  11. Credit conundrum

    If I write a journal paper with a colleague in my department, we will get half the research assessment exercise credit each. If I write a paper with a colleague from another department or university...

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  12. Women's woes

    How can women succeed when your images of them are painted to fit the stereotype ("These women have had so many breaks...", THES, February 12). You edited out the fact that the underachieving "me"...

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  13. Why I

    I am standing for election to the Welsh Assembly even though I campaigned against devolution for Wales The facts have changed. I campaigned against the Welsh Assembly being set up but now it is going...

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  14. How to keep ahead of the herd

    England is the world leader in agricultural research but how much longer will it last? asks Peter Kettlewell A study of the international impact of research in different countries was recently...

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  15. Culture of subterfuge

    The North Staffordshire baby deaths highlight the need for more support for medical ethics committees, says Richard Nicholson "Babies twice as likely to be brain-damaged by experimental ventilator"...

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