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  1. Staff training not worthy of scorn 3

    Frank Furedi's attack on university staff development is largely empty and misconstructed. Staff development aims to further the goals of an institution, individuals, or both. Furedi attacks...

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  2. Time to mix'n'match 1

    John Drummond neglects to mention that dental school recruitment problems extend to non-clinical academics, who are usually responsible for 30-40 per cent of teaching (Letters, THES , January 30). He...

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  3. Time to mix'n'match 2

    The British Medical Association is concerned that clinical academic numbers are falling when medical student numbers are rising steeply ("BMA warns of research-mad medical schools", THES , January 30...

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  4. Questionable results

    Preliminary results of the pilot student satisfaction survey ("Students rate staff highly", THES , January 30) should be treated with caution. Constructing a league table that allows students to...

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  5. High expectations 1

    Geoffrey Beattie's claim ("It's not what Les says that counts", THES , January 30) that the Big Brother house and its inmates provide valuable data for new psychological theory is worrying. His main...

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  6. High expectations 2

    How appropriate that the survey conducted by psychologists at Leicester University should rank Tony Blair and David Blaine in the 69th position ("Youth drool at cool", THES , January 30). A fantasist...

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  7. Bargain basement 1

    An apparently unnoticed spanner in the higher education bill (Opinion, THES , January 30) is that European Union directives require the UK to offer higher education places to non-UK EU citizens on...

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  8. Bargain basement 2

    David Latchman (Letters, THES , January 23) makes a plea for a funding review of part-time students. What is needed is not a perpetuation of the divisive distinction between part-time and full-time...

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  9. Get it taped

    In December, I wrote a letter to Downing College, Cambridge, that I later sent to The THES ("Oxford tutor attacks Cambridge interview", THES , January 9), about my daughter's interview for a place to...

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  10. Pre-emptive action

    The way Richard Davies, vice-chancellor of Swansea University, announced his plan to close five departments ("Swansea axes 35 jobs in unpopular courses purge", THES , January 30) could almost be...

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  11. Better science

    Cambridge University's decision to drop plans for a controversial primate research centre bodes well for humans and animals alike ("Primate centre 'was set to fail'", THES , January 30). The...

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  12. Bare necessities

    We receive a significant number of applications from students who are expected to achieve reasonable results in their post-16 qualifications but have failed maths and/or English GCSEs. These...

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  13. Foiled by artifice

    Wayne Hemingway's description of his son's reaction to university promotional material (Soapbox, THES , January 30) misses the point: admissions tutors look to recruit students who show evidence of...

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  14. Don't do it

    Ruth Morse raises an important issue ("So, Doctor, what exactly is your real name?", THES , January 30). There is no legal requirement to change your name on marriage, and the simplest solution is...

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