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  1. Letter: Use the library record

    Local library cooperation is again on the agenda (Letters, THES , April 13). In 1972-73 I led a Department of Education and Science-sponsored research project into local library cooperation in...

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  2. Letter: QAA: a lesson in losing friends (1)

    David Blunkett has effectively told the Quality Assurance Agency to pack up its scheme for reviewing standards in higher education before it has begun (News, Letters, THES , April 6). The root of the...

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  3. Letter: QAA: a lesson in losing friends (2)

    Surely there are better ways of improving teaching and learning than by creating an unwieldy centralised bureaucracy (the TQA) with a fuzzy mission that cost £100 million ("Worthy project or just a...

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  4. Letter: QAA: a lesson in losing friends (3)

    As we all crawl, exhausted, to the April close of the 2001 research assessment exercise, suggestions for a new exercise may be considered most unwelcome. Nevertheless there is a case for a campaign...

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  5. Letter: Sandwich fees

    Sandwich-year students regularly ask what they get for the 50 per cent tuition fee they pay on their year out (Letters, THES , April 13). They say a couple of visits from a supervisor and a couple of...

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  6. Letter: Quicker remedies

    It is hard to imagine that an education ombudsman working under the jurisdiction of university visitors will achieve the independence or impartiality required to comply with Article 6 of the Human...

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  7. Letter: Changing minds

    Alan Ryan writes (Letters, THES , April 13) that he does not believe me when I say, in my review of Andrew Malcolm's The Remedy , that I do not understand why he changed his mind about Malcolm's...

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  8. Leader: 'Great-man' research theory put to the test

    After the capital spending drought of recent years, the Joint Infrastructure Fund and its successor, the Science Research Investment Fund, are welcome. Many millions of pounds have been provided to...

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  9. Leader: Mean measures have damaged expansion plans

    As we approach a general election, the issue of student poverty and debt is likely to be the one higher education issue that registers on the public's seismograph. Expansion and the introduction of...

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  12. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist who is also well known for poetry and short stories: "He was working on the edge of the...

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