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  1. Academic awards

    Royal College of Art The Sir Misha Black Medal for distinguished services to design education 2001 has been awarded to Yuri Soloviev in recognition of his development of the International Council of...

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  2. Higher education appointments

    University of Surrey Lecturers S. Fabri , mobile-satellite communications and networking. R. Tandon , marketing. Research officers D. Cox , school of electronics, computing and mathematics. K....

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  3. British Academy research grants 2001

    Dr L. Archer (University of North London), £6,660. The role of identities and inequalities on the aspirations of inner-city school leavers. Professor G. Barker FBA (University of Leicester), £13,535...

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  4. Laurie Taylor column

    "The teaching quality assessment exercise has been rendered all but meaningless by grade inflation and gamesmanship" - THES, March 2 . Let me turn immediately to the only item on today's agenda. I'm...

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  5. Letter: Ideas cost the Earth (1)

    Fred Pearce's review of Vandana Shiva's Tomorrow's Diversity and Norman Moss's Managing the Planet (Books, THES, March 2) seemed to be little more than a Baconian reinforcement. Applauding Moss's...

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  6. Letter: Ideas cost the Earth (2)

    Fred Pearce's attack on Vandana Shiva is an instructive example of how environmentalism without a recognition of the intrinsic value of nature is vulnerable to the self-serving ideology of...

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  7. Letter: Happy relationship

    Matthew Chapman criticises Liverpool University's accreditation of Trinity College degrees in his article on British universities validating degrees from foreign institutions ("Risks in overseas...

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  8. Letter: Sats don't help access

    It seems extraordinary that the UK is now engaged in a debate on the merits of United States Scholastic Assessment Tests ("Britain is urged to adopt US Sats", THES, March 2). American research has...

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  9. Letter: Past imperfect

    I share Beverley Southgate's concern about the declining number of history students (Why I... think history needs a moral purpose, THES, March 2). I suggest several reasons for this: * The deplorable...

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

    Your story on the inflation of teaching quality assessment grades is cogent and welcome, but the conclusion is not surprising ("TQA devalued by grade rises", THES, March 9). The trend is best...

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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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