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  1. Feedback is key to learning

    It was interesting to read the two articles about assessment ("Group says marking impedes learning" and "Learning is a two-way street", 24 April). The first stated that the Weston Manor Group (or at...

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  2. Science lobby equally guilty

    As a scientist, a Jewish atheist and a supporter of abortion rights, I have no brief for Cardinal Keith O'Brien. But every charge that Gerard Kelly makes of the Cardinal can be laid at the door of...

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  3. I'll pay the price for freedom

    I think that there are one or two flaws in the National Student Survey ("Academics criticise HEA for flouting principles of academic freedom", 17 April). Please publish this - I would like to be...

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  4. Off-stage drama

    The new-look Times Higher Education works for me. In particular, I have appreciated the addition of an index of subjects and institutions, which has highlighted an interesting variation in subject...

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  5. Let's agree to disagree on modern myths 1

    I disagree profoundly, completely and absolutely with Simon Blackburn's provocative view that "the scientist" is a myth ("Reality check", 24 April).A scientist is someone who applies the scientific...

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  6. Let's agree to disagree on modern myths 2

    I agree with a great deal of what Simon Blackburn has written in his sensible and entertaining "top ten modern myths" - especially regarding the myth of meaning and the myth of management.But I...

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  7. Let's agree to disagree on modern myths 3

    In support of his contention that there is no such thing as religious belief, Simon Blackburn quotes David Hume who, according to him, "was usually right about such things". The following quotation...

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  8. Let's agree to disagree on modern myths 4

    Television viewers will owe a debt of gratitude to Simon Blackburn if BBC Two is inspired to produce a series of Grumpy Old Academics.Steve Fuller, Professor of sociology, University of Warwick.

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  9. Let's agree to disagree on modern myths 2

    In his amusing article, Simon Blackburn says that "nostalgia for the days before some change or other is usually fake and always embarrassing, like folk dancing or trying to preserve the Irish...

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  10. Publishing isn't doomed 1

    Once again, I read with wry amusement a number of academics telling academic publishing houses how best to do their job ("Publish and be ignored", 24 April).When I worked as a commissioning editor...

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  11. Clocking on

    Fee-paying students want more teaching contact hours for their money. But do the bald figures on how often they see their tutor tell the whole story? Hannah Fearn investigates

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  12. We've lost those magic moments

    The emphasis on learning outcomes and benchmarks in the context of English literature is little more than a straitjacket that stifles the originality and creativity of both author and student critic...

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  13. 'Never means never'

    Torture cannot be justified, says Philippe Sands, an academic and barrister who has traced how the US came to sanction the practice after 9/11. It doesn't work and it costs us dearly, he tells...

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  14. Selling points

    Corporate speak is key to applying for promotion, says Gloria Monday

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