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  1. Iron out waffle over research 1

    If there were a prize for pompous waffle, it would surely be awarded to the debate on "the iron link between the quality of teaching and research". It is not even much of a debate because every...

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  2. No regime change

    The University of Surrey will always evaluate the benefits of seeking to develop new funding streams to further cut its dependence on recurrent grant funding, but it has no plans to work outside the...

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  3. Iron out waffle over research 2

    Rewarding excellent teaching through promotion procedures is one way of stimulating good teaching and ensuring parity of esteem with research ("Unions on the warpath over reward for 'star' teachers...

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  4. Anti-science WMDs

    The official nationwide debate on genetically modified crops ends this month but the unofficial debate will continue, mainly because many people involved see this as "war". One side has worked for...

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  5. Clampdown on drivers

    The arguments to justify academics using private transport are unconvincing ("Driven to distraction by the charge of the green brigade", THES, July 18). Academics drive to work because they can and...

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  6. Grant us fairer chance

    The success of a research proposal to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ("Grant rulings 'are skewed'", THES, July 11) depends very much on referees' reports and on how ranking...

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  7. A taxing proposal

    Nicholas Barr says that if higher education is funded from general taxation, "the taxes of a hospital porter would pay for the degree of the old Etonian" ("MPs maul ministers' blueprint", THES, July...

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  8. Pap and panoramas 1

    I'm sure Catherine Belsey does not admire the Cabaret figure who sings The Future Belongs to Me ("Why I...", THES, July 18). He wants Anschluss, not truth and reconciliation. The issue in English...

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  9. Pap and panoramas 2

    Catherine Belsey presumably gives marks to the work of her students, so why is she coy about assigning value to the work of writers they study? As students cannot cover everything, they can...

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  10. Physics fast with food

    Steven Ley says in the article about What's Cooking in Chemistry? ("An invitation to dine at the periodic table", THES, July 18), a collection of recipes from organic chemists around the world, that...

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  11. Valid definitions? 1

    The article "Quality audit queries OU-validated degrees" ( THES, July 18) about the Quality Assurance Agency audit of our Danish partnership misses the real significance of the report's findings. The...

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  12. Valid definitions? 2

    It seems bizarre that as Open University validation services' appointed external examiner at the Kolding Kobmandsskole, I was not contacted by the QAA audit team. I realise that the audit is...

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  13. All by the book

    A. D. Harvey (Letters, THES, July 18) writes about an instance when a book was unavailable for consultation in the British Library's reading rooms at St Pancras because it was out on loan. The...

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