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Laurie Taylor Column
A quality assurance expert claims that a "cartel" of quality inspectors has artificially bolstered the performance of philosophy departments in the Teaching Quality Assessment exercise - THES, June...
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Letter: Illiberal Opus Dei? (2)
You report the views of John Roche that Opus Dei undermines family ties and disapproves of ordinary friendships. This is contradicted by the writings of its founder, Josemaria Escriv de Balaguer. It...
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Letter: Not very broad church (2)
The Lambeth MA in theology takes the doctrinal biscuit. Of course no one expects the Church of England to appoint as archbishop of Canterbury someone whose theological position is at odds with its...
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Letter: What's the score? (1)
Saying that the Quality Assurance Agency subject reviewers in philosophy have formed a "cartel" ("Philosophy scores add to QAA criticism", THES , June 22) suggests that those reviewers are corrupt....
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Letter: Corporatist QAA
No one reading the Quality Assurance Agency's audit report on the Middlesex University franchise in Cairo would recognise it as justifying Phil Baty's story ("Franchises fail to impress", THES , June...
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Letter: PRP: perfectly ridiculous plan? (2)
Higher education staff feel a kinship with the Pied Piper. The job is done. Access has improved, student participation has doubled. Despite a decrease in the unit of resource, quality standards in...
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Letter: Let's hear it for Hodge (1)
Margaret Hodge may have said things with which many of us would disagree, but she is a bright woman, will listen and will learn quickly. Let us not forget that she has a strong record on equal...
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Letter: No bursary for us
The training bursary for part-time graduate trainee teachers (News in brief, THES , June 22) does not apply to those training to teach in further and higher education. It is interesting that the...
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Letter: Illiberal Opus Dei? (1)
Paul Bompard claims Jesuits are particularly opposed to Opus Dei and uses my name as evidence ("Sainted or tainted", THES , June 22). I am not a "British Jesuit". I left the Society of Jesus in 1975...
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Letter: Not very broad church (1)
Phil Baty's report ("Clerics up in arms as reverend rejected", THES , June 22) on Andrew Brown's exclusion from the Lambeth MA in theology on the grounds that he is a Unitarian misses two details...
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Letter: Trend variations
The conclusion that the proportion of good degrees has risen slightly between 1994-95 and 1998-99 (Analysis, THES , June 22) is consistent with analyses I have undertaken. But analyses of whole-...
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Letter: What's the score? (2)
The scrapping of the inept teaching quality assessment regime, as promised, will bring to an end an annual and instructive comedy of manners. In my own subject, archaeology, the maximum score that...
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Letter: PRP: perfectly ridiculous plan? (1)
The question is no longer if performance-related pay will be implemented for higher education staff but when, judging by the clear warning given by Sir Howard Newby ("Pay rises will be linked to...