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  1. 'Teaching' to be Abolished

    Our new Director of Curriculum Development, Janet Fluellen, announced this week that she was giving serious thought to the idea of abandoning teaching at Poppleton.She explained to our reporter Keith...

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  2. 6.40am - special delivery

    Kevin Fong treasures the scary euphoria of an unexpected home birth

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  4. David Leslie, 1953-2008

    David Leslie, the champion racing-car driver who died in a plane crash on 30 March, was well known to fans of motorsport. But he has been less celebrated for his role at Swansea Metropolitan...

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  6. Publishing isn't doomed 2

    Sophie Goldsworthy in "What an academic publisher can do for you" ("Publish and be ignored", 24 April) argues that Oxford University Press promotes "scholarly integrity" in terms of how it "delivers...

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  7. Publishing isn't doomed 3

    I read "Publish and be ignored" with some amazement. It gives a highly selective, inaccurate picture of academic publishing in the UK. To talk of "the sad decline of British academic publishing" is a...

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  8. The slippery legal slope

    We hear from the Office of the Independent Adjudicator that complaints are increasing. One way to ensure that they go on increasing is to adopt the sort of overly formal student contract that some...

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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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