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Laurie Taylor
The current lack of postgraduates may mean serious academic staff shortages in the future, THES September 28. Well, that seems a natural point to stop. Would Judith Longworth please stay behind. Yes...
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Letter: 'Lazy student' label wears thin
When Stephen Perrin of Liverpool Hope complained about giving mini-lectures in seminars because students were not prepared (Teaching, THES , September 21), your Agony Aunt was naive to say that...
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Letter: Shaky foundations (1)
Your analysis on recruitment to foundation degrees ("Great idea - shame about the cold feet", THES , September 28) once again perpetuates the great higher education excuse - blame it on the marketing...
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Letter: Shaky foundations (2)
I would like to add balance to reports on poor recruitment to foundation degrees by confirming a very positive start to the three degrees run by the Consortium of Arts and Design Institutions in...
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Letter: In brief (1)
May I correct the misleading impression given of the accommodation position for new students at the University of Leicester ("Room at the inn for freshers", THES , September 28)? Far from being "...
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Letter: In brief (2)
I hope that the report of the comments of the vice-chancellor of the University Southampton was abbreviated beyond recognition ("V-c in access warning", THES , September 28). He seems to be arguing...
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Letter: In brief (3)
Several years' experience of recruitment and training in the private sector demonstrates that spelling and proofreading skills are rare in graduates (Letters, THES , September 28). When teaching as a...
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Letter: Cash isn't the question
London Guildhall University Natfhe chairman Alan Lafferty (Letters, THES , September 28), risks deflecting attention from the real issue of education provision by focusing his comments on the...
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Letter: Know your placement (1)
We need to encourage employers to offer more student placements as relevant work experience carries a premium in employment and sandwich placements are the crème de la crème of work experience. We...
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Letter: Know your placement (2)
The Quality Assurance Agency continues its pronouncements of how vital a service it provides prospective students and employers, with the Liberal Democrats and the National Union of Students queuing...
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Letter: Get some PhD appeal
Research councils are right to be concerned at the fall in the number of postgraduate research students in the United Kingdom ("Councils fear shortage of postgraduates", THES , September 28). Funding...
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Leader: Employer openness will stave off unfairness
Rahul Jindal's industrial tribunal case against the University of Glasgow raises an issue, referee confidentiality, that is of wider concern than a single individual or institution. Academic careers...
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Leader: Institutions risk zero-sum game if they snub Hodge
The mood music from Brighton this week has been all sombre pomp and circumstance. The prime minister and the chancellor are readying the country for war - for soldiers' deaths and higher taxes. As...
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An intellectual vacuum
Where are the UK's Chomskys, Sontags and Saids? Frank Furedi mourns the demise of Britain's public intellectuals and the rise of the safe university 'expert'. At a recent discussion about the future...