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  1. Letter: Inflation deflates 'robust' QAA (2)

    The analysis of TQA grades in your story illustrates some of the pitfalls of comparing performance by different institutions especially as grades - being a measure of fitness for purpose - are not...

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  2. Letter: Marking mad

    Am I quite mad? I have just completed the external examination of a PhD thesis. I was paid £105 plus second-class fares from London to Swansea. The fee works out at £2.92p per hour - about two-thirds...

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  3. Letter: We did meet our target (1)

    Your report on the recovery of funding ("Recruitment failures lose out on £35m", THES, March 2) was mistaken because the Higher Education Funding Council for England published incorrect data for this...

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  4. Letter: We did meet our target (2)

    There should be little surprise that only 7,000 of the projected ,000 enrolments for part-time courses have been received. Most students are part-timers: working 20 hours a week or more outside...

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  5. Leader: For the good of all, UUK must now fight for cash

    Everyone in higher education agrees that universities need more money. The body that exists to fight for it, Universities UK, explored the options thoroughly in the Taylor report. But the task now is...

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  9. A defining light in the darkness of the mind

    Keith Sutherland engages with a polemical consciousness raiser. A few years ago, the Royal Society organised a short meeting on the "problem of consciousness" at its headquarters in London's Carlton...

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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 child's-eye view of Nazism: "Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me...

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