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  1. Fight for 'other' Israel

    I have visited Israel many times and have always felt a deep attachment to the country. But I am filled with anger and despair at recent events there and in the occupied territories. It is essential...

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  2. More distortions

    The David Irving trial was not only about Holocaust denial and the nature of historical research, but also about fudging the truth. It also examined in detail the vexed question of how the subtle...

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  3. Value a degree 1

    The government buys places at UK universities cheap and then feels entitled to demand more for its money ("Lecturers told to get real-world job skills", THES , July 5). But if the government uses...

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  4. Value a degree 2

    Mike Hill, head of the Careers Services Unit, like the government, equates training with education. Vocational courses should be partnerships between universities and employers. The university...

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  5. Value a degree 3

    To read that working in a fast-food restaurant will be "valuable experience" for a student made me wonder if this was a news item left over from April 1. My experience of factory work was valuable...

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  6. Regional racism

    It was interesting to see the piece on institutionalised racism ("Too few black staff in FE", THES , July 5). But there is another form of internal discrimination: that operating against staff from...

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  7. V-cs on platform 93/4

    Your front-page article ("The train on platform 1 is not posh enough...", THES , July 5) about the need for Universities UK to charter first-class carriages to transport vice-chancellors to...

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  8. It's time to drop the dead parrot 1

    Frank Furedi's hearty defence of "diverse" assessment strategies is a timely wake-up call (Why I..., THES , July 5) and reminiscent of the protestations of the pet "boutique" proprietor in the famous...

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  9. It's time to drop the dead parrot 2

    Trust Frank Furedi to defend arbitrary and obscure academic procedures in exam marking. From his free-market position, you pays your money and takes your choice. We can expect his endorsement of top-...

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  10. It's time to drop the dead parrot 3

    Frank Furedi complains of centralised bureaucracy in assessment and argues that lecturers should be allowed more autonomy. What he really wants is a return to the pre-Robbins days when dons did...

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  11. It's time to drop the dead parrot 4

    You report that one academic thought an essay was first class while three others graded the work as third class. You could as well say that 96 of the 100 graded that essay as a second, the mark...

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  12. It's time to drop the dead parrot 5

    The marking system is a mess. As a mature student, I find that marking differs not only between faculties but also within departments. I have fallen foul of this and have complained. This complaint,...

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  13. Is the Universe older than expected?

    Paris, 10 July 2002 An analysis of 13.5 thousand million-year-old X-rays, captured by ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, has shown that either the Universe may be older than astronomers had thought or that...

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  15. Final FP6 decision document now available on CORDIS

    Brussels, 10 July 2002 The document of the decision of the European Parliament and Council on the Sixth Framework programme is now available on CORDIS in its RTD2002 section. The decision, which was...

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