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  1. Writes and wrongs 3

    If we, as William Leahy seems to suggest, think of argumentation as a skill too "academic" for mere undergraduates, who presumably need only to shuffle papers in some tedious future office career,...

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  2. Student boot camp 1

    The article on changing attitudes in Army training from "how do I ensure no one gets through who doesn't deserve it?" to "how do I get as many people as possible up to standard?" has resonance for...

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  3. Student boot camp 2

    The problems of poor recruit retention and bullying in the Army have become apparent only since the 1990s. My first career was in the Army. At one point I served at Blackdown Barracks, now called...

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  4. Reckless or feckless?

    I teach Mark Lilla's The Reckless Mind, the book that Paul Cartledge prefers to my own (The Intellectual) (Books, November 4). Students study it as part of a course called "The feckless mind"....

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  5. Fun in development 1

    I was disappointed to see our highly successful staff development festival reported so negatively in last week's Times Higher ("Union accuses v-c of mass bullying", November 4). A team of committed...

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  6. Fun in development 2

    I was disturbed by last week's article that reported an accusation of bullying against the vice-chancellor of my univer-sity and cast our staff development festival in a poor light. My experience of...

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  7. Space savers 1

    Your article "Lecturers who failed to fill room fined £500" (November 4) focuses on unused teaching rooms at City University. I have been carrying out space utilisation surveys in higher and further...

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  8. Space savers2

    I note with interest the efforts of City University to charge lecturers for rooms they book but fail to use. Given property prices in the area, surely the university should consider putting the rooms...

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  9. Restore don't reform

    The changes proposed to Cambridge University's intellectual property policy are not a "wrecking amendment" ("Cambridge to ballot on IP reforms", October 28). They will return us to the policy we...

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  10. Majority minority

    In his review of Tony Kushner's We Europeans (Books, November 4) Panikos Panayis describes the study as concentrating "on ethnic minorities in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s when Jews formed the...

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  11. It's OK to think about feelings 1

    I share Dennis Hayes's commitment to critique and robust intellectual debate ("The touchy-feely brigade: coming your way soon", November 4). How curious then that instead of a critical analysis of...

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  12. It's OK to think about feelings 2

    Dennis Hayes's fears for the impact of the touchy-feely brigade serves up a confused picture. While I wholly endorse the notions of academic freedom and intellectually robust criticism, I cannot...

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  13. It's OK to think about feelings 3

    While we applaud many of the sentiments expressed by Dennis Hayes, we cannot share the "anything goes" extremes of his stance. We should not forget that academic freedom can be used, and has been...

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  15. Still finding small wonders right under his nose

    As David Attenborough launches his new series, Anna Fazackerley finds out why he is the academy's favourite broadcaster His hushed, mellifluous voice has become synonymous with natural history. He...

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