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  1. Specials index 4

    Microsoft supplement Published: June 22 2007 Deep learning: how to get students on the insight track                &nbsp...

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  2. Laurie Taylor Column

    "Leeds Metropolitan University plans to impose a set of 'attitudes and behaviours' that includes the expectation that academic staff will 'go the extra mile', show 'courtesy and respect' and have a '...

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  3. Alan Ryan

    First, the obligatory declaration: both my parents left school before their 14th birthdays, one grandfather drove trucks and the other was a shot-firer on the South Yorkshire coal field. Actually,...

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  4. Leader: We must tackle the literacy crisis

    It is a mark of how committed academics are to their students and to teaching that there has been no outcry nationally over the levels of students' preparedness for university study. Lecturers do not...

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  5. Leader: Too much Kant?

    Plato, apparently, had little time for business and businessmen, believing that only the worst types of people bothered with such stuff. But then he was in the habit of denying the reality of the...

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  6. Why we cancelled Kuntzel 1

    Matthias Kuntzel asks: "Is there no longer room for debate?" at Leeds University (Opinion, March 23). There certainly is. We are committed to promoting and encouraging debate, inquiry and protest. We...

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  7. Why we cancelled Kuntzel 2

    When academics fail to argue for their freedom, how do they expect students to treat university as anything more than the first step on the career ladder? Matthias Kuntzel's attempted lecture was...

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  8. Friends, not foes

    The issues confronting lecturers and researchers are more complex than you allow ("Hunt faces rough ride from Left on NEC", March 23). The commercialisation and commodification of higher learning and...

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  9. Open to errors

    As staff at Sussex University's Science and Technology Policy Research Unit and Brighton University's Centre for Research in Innovation Management Centre, we are greatly concerned at the poorly...

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  10. Read carefully

    Katie Gramich (Letters, March 16) accuses me of seeing devolution only as a "problem" and of considering solely the English aspect of it in my review of Christopher Bryant's The Nations of Britain (...

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  11. Not one for answers

    For John Armitage (Opinion, March 16), Jean Baudrillard provides "a much-needed critique of semiotic society". However, while postmodernism may pose some awkward questions, it can have no answers. In...

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  12. Art makes it personal

    Anne Bamford's article (Opinion, March 23) is a refreshing reminder of the value of our art schools in fostering innovation. Most of us working in higher education know that lectures do little to...

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  13. Made into a jobsworth

    My response to the contemptible rise of corporate-style management in higher education ("Corporate push spawns 24/7 culture", March 23) has been simple: I work to rule. Once I was happy to respond to...

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  14. Built-in obsolescence

    Much of the debate about the redeployment of postdocs displays a profound ignorance of the structure and mores of the postdoctoral research system. Because their skills are often highly specialised,...

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  15. Bored, not befuddled

    Protestations that members of the University and College Union were possibly put off by the complexity of the voting system in the ballot for the union's general secretary ("Low voter turnout raises...

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