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  1. Social sciences round-up

    Working with Adults at Risk from HarmEditors: Margaret Greenfields, Roger Dalrymple and Agnes FanningEdition: FirstPublisher: Open University Press/McGraw-HillPages: 296Price: £65.00, £22.99 and £....

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  2. Social Work: From Theory to Practice

    Authors: Marie Connolly and Louise HarmsEdition: FirstPublisher: Cambridge University Press Pages 214Price: £45.00ISBN: 9780521133623The relationship between theory and practice within social-work...

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  3. Student review: The Drug Effect: Health, Crime and Society

    Editors: Suzanne Fraser and David MooreEdition: FirstPublisher: Cambridge University PressPages: 260Price: £32.99ISBN: 9780521156059As the debate about drug use and addiction rages on in the media,...

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  4. The kindness of strangers

    External examiners' anachronistic power over the PhD process can be painfully counter-productive. Chris Hackley calls for a more constructive, European-style approach - and for judgement moderated...

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  5. European model seems unsustainable

    Roger Walters is correct in stating that The Open University's council has initiated a full consultation exercise on the proposal to cease direct employment of its staff based in continental Europe...

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  6. Facts better than forecasts

    I write regarding your news article "Elite institutions predicted to fall short on research student qualifications" (17 May), which draws on data from the Higher Education Funding Council for England...

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  7. Quality, not quantity

    Under the headline "Three times the cost but same timetable" (News, 17 May), Times Higher Education analyses the recent Higher Education Policy Institute report The Academic Experience of Students at...

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  8. System failure

    I recently spent the best part of a Sunday afternoon trying to help my daughter complete the student loan application for entry in September.The Student Loans Company website prompts students to use...

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  9. Tolerance a two-way street

    I cannot tell from Maleiha Malik's review of Martha Nussbaum's The New Religious Intolerance to what extent this may be true of the book, but the critique is deeply flawed ("Signposts to a brave new...

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  10. Free time (1 of 2)

    It is by no means only outside the academy that "Free-range thinkers" (3 May) plough their non-conventional furrows; and it is arguably essential for Foucauldian "fearless speech" to survive and...

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  11. Free time (2 of 2)

    So, according to the Universities Human Resources group, autonomy and academic freedom are past it ("Freedom a 'former value' in admin-led sector", News, 17 May). In the same issue, Tom Palaima...

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  12. Tight club

    I congratulate the academic who managed to wring £50 from the BBC for her work ("Auntie exploitation", Letters, 10 May). I recently volunteered to participate in a public event for BBC Learning, tied...

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  13. Who cares out there?

    Recently I attended a talk by Stefan Collini about What Are Universities For?, his new book. I expected the venue (a bookshop in central London) to be packed with students, lecturers, perhaps even...

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  14. Ancient rivalry

    Your remark about the greater influence of the University of Oxford compared with the University of Cambridge appears tongue in cheek, but it might be taken more seriously (The week in higher...

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  15. Tweet clarity

    I note that the issue of research impact is again of concern (eg, "Dismissal threat for metrics letter", 17 May). In particular, it seems there is an issue about communicating research insights...

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