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  1. Pondering the plagiarism plague 1

    The corner-cutting culture in universities is not the only cause of student plagiarism (Letter, THES, July 25). At Easter, I marked about 60 non-assessed essays by first-year law students. Only six...

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  2. Pondering the plagiarism plague 2

    Neither academics nor the internet can be blamed so easily for student plagiarism. The internet may provide some students with a "quick fix" but it also assists tutors in locating and penalising...

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  3. Pondering the plagiarism plague 3

    Frank Furedi describes departmental meetings deliberating about a simple example of plagiarism - "an essay containing five paragraphs of copied material". Like the "dirty dossier", this is obviously...

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  4. Pondering the plagiarism plague

    Frank Furedi is right. If academics and the institutions in which they work treat knowledge as a commodity, why shouldn't students do the same? When "getting through" is all that matters, what...

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  5. Library fees

    British Library requests are not dealt with on a first-come, first-served basis as Natalie Ceeney, director of operations and services, writes (Letters, THES, July 25). I have a letter from the BL...

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  6. Bespoke service 1

    To use the Open University as "evidence" that teaching and research need not be linked is to misunderstand how the OU works ("Role split is an attack on identity", THES, July 25). The OU operates a...

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  7. Bespoke service 2

    The content of what teachers teach is in danger of being lost in the flak of the research-teaching debate (Letters, THES, July 25). In a general climate of dumbing down, overemphasis on content-free...

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  8. Good and bad crops

    Michael Reiss is right that classic social science research can discover more about biotechnology's impact on society ("Science review uncovers GM angst", THES, July 25). The London School of...

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  9. Flawed reasoning

    So what if Karl Popper changed his mind about induction early in his career ("Popper 'falsified' old ideas", THES, July 25)? What is important is the innovative anti-inductivist argument that he...

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  10. Heavy burden

    In his analysis of the Ivy League ("The fuss over graduate numbersI is about Oxford losing money on undergraduate teaching", THES, July 4), Alan Ryan notes that the annual budget of the University of...

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  11. Transport traumas

    Academics do not always have a choice about using private transport to do their jobs (Letters, THES, July 25). Their work is not always campus or home-based. Tutors working with initial teacher...

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  12. Negating authority

    How delicious it would be to give a higher education authority an acronym that simply means "negation". For that is the meaning of yok in Turkish ("All Turkish rectors face sack", THES, July 25). The...

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  13. Pay-spine paralysis

    How can the Russell Group chairman say that the new national academic pay spine could cause difficulties because it "means that we cannot, without justification, pay someone who falls on a clear pay-...

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  14. Common cause

    Proposals to merge the still unrecognised ethnic-Albanian University of Tetovo with our institution, one of the three fully recognised and accredited universities in Macedonia, aroused our interest...

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