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Frugal book-buyers
You do well to highlight the financial pressures on university libraries ("Borrowers' life on the shelf, THES, December 4). But you do them a disservice in ignoring a major cooperative initiative...
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Four is really five
There are not four but five ancient Scottish universities ("Fat is a student issue", THES, November 20). There has been a university in Dundee for about 500 years and as such we were long ago awarded...
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Teaching-research link valuable
In arguing for splitting research from the assessment and funding of teaching in all post-compulsory education, your editorial is taking us further along the path of reinventing the binary divide ("...
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Teaching-research link valuable
The teaching or research debate occupies so much discussion in higher education and I have enormous personal sympathy for colleagues and students in the department of earth sciences at Sheffield...
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Assessment treadmill
Jim Parry ("The all-work and no play way to a degree", THES, November ) accurately describes the assessment treadmill. Not only do students have the pressure of numerous summative assessments...
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Readers' reactions
If more universities recognised that students are working instead of brushing the reality under the carpet there might be better control of what is actually going on and more benefit for students....
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Why I ... resigned as Conservative education spokesman in the Lords
In Great Britain we have very powerful political parties and a very powerful executive. I am concerned that any second chamber should be able to limit the executive. I was amazed that the government...
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Why I ... did not resign the Conservative whip last week
I was minded to resign originally because we were all so upset at the way things happened last Wednesday. Feelings were running high and a lot of people were talking about resigning. But I was...
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Tuition: to pay or not?
YES says Peter Younie, bursar of an Oxford College This year the family of every first-year student in this country became potentially liable to pay Pounds 1,000 towards the cost of their university...
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Tuition: to pay or not?
NO say rebel students Alice Nash and Kate Atkinson We are two students who have decided to withhold our payment of the Pounds 1,000 tuition fee in protest against the Education Act. We can afford the...
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'Laura lives today because of the drugs she gets'
Laura Cowell is 13. She has cystic fibrosis and relies on a daily cocktail of up to 70 drugs. Her future depends on drugs developed on animals. "She lives today because of the drugs she gets,"...
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'We're all scared to death'
The Animal Rights Militia has threatened to kill ten researchers if animal rights activist Barry Horne, on hunger strike demanding a Royal Commission on animal experimentation, dies. As The THES went...
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Jobs upgraded to grad level
Employers are upgrading to graduate level jobs held until recently by people with subdegree qualifications, says a report published this week. A study by consultants Business Strategies has found...
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Think again, says Queen's convocation
* The convocation of Queen's University Belfast has backed a motion calling for a "detailed and careful reconsideration" of plans to restructure the university. A meeting attended by more than 250...