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  1. Laurie Taylor Column

    " Ministers are considering a further increase in the premium paid to universities for each student they recruit from a poor neighbourhood " - THES , February 16. Hello. Ah yes, hello indeed. Am I...

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  2. Letter: Bean-counterclaims

    We recently had a letter published (THES, January 26) that criticised the transparency review being carried out in the sector. This is the scheme whereby staff have to keep 24-hour diaries of their...

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  3. Letter: Surveying's shallow foundations

    The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors bases its new partnership scheme on teaching quality assessment, the research assessment exercise, entry standards and student employability ("Surveying...

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  4. Letter: Surveying's shallow foundations

    As a member of the Partnerships and Accreditation Board (PAB) of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, I have consistently questioned and opposed three of the four threshold standards adopted...

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  5. Letter: Ditch casual disregard

    Chris Kynch (Soapbox, THES, February 9) is right to urge action to help casualised staff. All too often teaching quality is maintained only at the expense of grossly overworked part-time staff, and...

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  6. Letter: Figure fetishes

    Howard Allen implies that if teaching is effective, distributions of grades should be heavily skewed towards firsts and upper seconds (Teaching, THES, February 9). For too long, fetishes have been...

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  7. Letter: Janet and adverts

    Following Charles Crook's stimulating article ("Spare us logo land", THES, February 2) readers may be interested to know that the Joint Information Systems Committee ( http:///www.jisc.ac.uk/ ) is...

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  8. Letter: Blooming marvellous

    I note that the Academie Francaise has just elected its third woman member since the male monopoly was broken 20 years ago, (Worldwatch, THES, February 16). Given that members are traditionally...

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  9. Letter: Give us a bit of credit

    G. R. Evans describes the Schneider-Ross report on Cambridge's equality audit as damning (Letters, THES, February 2). Yes, the report pulls no punches in identifying weaknesses and issues that need...

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  10. Letter: God vs goddess

    So, the very serious Niall Ferguson laments a society in which "people pay more attention to the words of Nigella Lawson than to those of the archbishop of Canterbury" ("Want truth? Just follow the...

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  11. Leader: Taylor options put v-cs on spot over tuition fees

    Universities need more money. The Taylor report, published today by Universities UK, sets out figures showing the sector is underfunded by many hundreds of millions of pounds a year. And it talks...

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  15. Are fluorescent monkeys keys to glowing health?

    The Harvard University geneticist Richard Lewontin's book consists of review essays originally published in the New York Review of Books between 1981 and 1993, with epilogues to bring them up to date...

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