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  1. Letter: Review is good for you (1)

    After the barrage of criticisms of the Quality Assurance Agency ("QAA faces boycott by 66,000 lecturers", Analysis, Leader, Letters, Laurie Taylor, THES, March 30), an alternative perspective needs...

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  2. Letter: Review is good for you (2)

    It is not only institutional learning that has caused the rise in average total scores under the teaching quality assessment. In May 1995, I was a member of one of the first assessment teams applying...

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  3. Letter: Review is good for you (3)

    Laurie Taylor and the QAA overlook the true point of honorary degrees, and the reason why they are arranged orally. The traditional salutation is: "We give you the cachet, and you give us the cash,...

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  4. Letter: Review is good for you (4)

    Your leader says I am not a maverick. But I am, as is anyone these days who believes that universities and their staff should be trusted to do a good job, until they demonstrate that they cannot....

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  5. Letter: A plus for UK maths

    I found startling the statement by Brian Butterworth in his review of Keith Devlin's book The Maths Gene that "if we fall behind our economic competitors - and we have fallen a long way behind in the...

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  6. Letter: Shameful assembly (1)

    The problem in Welsh universities is not one of recruitment ("Squeeze hinders growth in Wales", THES , March 30), as any number of bums can be (and are) put on seats. The problem is simply that the...

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  7. Letter: Shameful assembly (2)

    The £265 million announced for Welsh higher education is only part of an overall recurrent grant of £286 million for the academic year 2001-02, to which should be added capital expenditure of £25...

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  8. Letter: It is a crisis and it's Labour's fault (1)

    You imply that there is conscious student choice in unexpectedly ending up at a pre-1992 university ("Shunned six made to fight for survival", THES , March 30). As anyone involved with admissions at...

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  9. Letter: It is a crisis and it's Labour's fault (2)

    I cannot speak for those of my colleagues at the other universities that have been invited by the Higher Education Funding Council for England to prepare a plan following the shortfall in student...

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  10. Letter: It is a crisis and it's Labour's fault (3)

    We have asked six higher education institutions for recovery plans because of the scale of holdback and consequent moderation funding that applies to them for the 2001-02 funding round. It would be...

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  11. Letter: Doctored joy

    A recent letter I received from a Scottish university can perhaps help explain the attitude of university administrators towards PhD external examiners. In the letter, a university official writes: "...

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  12. Letter: Let's push for equality

     Now that the prime minister is to delay the general election beyond May 3, there is an opportunity to put our stamp on campaigning. Students and teaching staff are central to the political...

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  14. Leader: Forget the job figures, look to lifelong learning

    British universities have been accused for years of failing to prepare students adequately for work. The plethora of statistics released this week suggests that this accusation was false. Yet in its...

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  15. Weather fine, war iffy, corns playing up

    Nigel Barley delights in the deciduous and a deltiologist's. In the village where I grew up there was a little old lady who lived alone. When she died and they broke down the door, they discovered...

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