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I commend Martin Davies's call for the government to revise the structure of social work training (THES, January 2), but I dispute his ill-informed comment about "leaving the majority of work with...
I commend Martin Davies's call for the government to revise the structure of social work training (THES, January 2), but I dispute his ill-informed comment about "leaving the majority of work with...
SO, IF we are all agreed - the students, their teachers, their bank managers, employers, Sir Ron Dearing and the government - that sandwich training should be supported and encouraged, why charge...
I AM NOT reassured by Simon Burgess's work on the lifespan of jobs (THES, December 26). It may be that our fears of job insecurity are excessive and that we need the kind of warning that you get from...
I WAS sorry to read Mr Obelkevich's letter (THES, December 19) complaining about noise in the British Library's new reading rooms. The reading rooms were indeed very busy during the opening period...
A BOOK review ought at least to outline the premise of the book under review and give a reasoned appraisal. Andrea Dworkin's distorted and polemical review of my book Ruling Passions: Sexual Violence...
GEOFFREY Alderman's amusing misrepresentation of the purposes and outcomes of the Quality Assurance Agency's "continuation" and overseas audit programmes (THES, December 26) cannot go unremarked. The...
Monday Approval of my application for sabbatical. Sabbatical is now called study leave. We have not found a three-letter acronym (TLA) for it yet. By the miracle of peer review, that cornerstone of...
A RECENT television drama has kept date rape a live issue for students, their universities and the public. Last year a 22-year-old Oxford University student was jailed for a year after he had...
AUSTRALIAN universities have been reeling from a series of shocks to the system over the past 18 months, most of which relate to changes in the method of financing higher education. Given the...
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Michael Webster on Eric Berne's Games People Play . Just as there are tunes that can never be driven permanently out of the head, there are ideas that survive in the memory long after their...
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