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  1. Fun way to assess

    It is hardly surprising that the survey of PhD vivas revealed considerable unevenness and possibly unfairness ("Push for viva ground rules", August 26). Putting three or four people whose status and...

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  2. Invitation to resign

    Universities used to be places where students could protest freely and peaceably against what they saw as oppressive policies and practices. Not any more, it seems ("'George Fox 6' could be jailed...

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  3. IQ fails to address all abilities 1

    I am amazed at the straightforwardness of Adrian Furnham's study, which concludes that students with high IQ scores preferred unseen, timed exams ("Plodders prefer coursework, study finds", September...

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  4. IQ fails to address all abilities 2

    Your report on Adrian Furnham's research claims that the least intelligent students prefer coursework to exams. But although Furnham has reported a link between self-assessed intelligence and...

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  5. IQ fails to address all abilities 3

    Should it be surprising that students who do well answering unseen IQ questions, under time pressure in a single session, prefer to answer exam papers on the same model? Equally, it seems sensible...

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  6. IQ fails to address all abilities 4

    No, honestly, I really did sit on my hands for a few hours before writing a response to yet another piece of "science" that says that men are more intelligent than women ("IQ claim will fuel gender...

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  7. No worse in Wales 1

    The reference in Roger Woods' Soapbox article about the funding of modern foreign languages in Wales being "worse than in England" is misleading (September 2). At the Higher Education Funding Council...

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  8. No worse in Wales 2

    Roger Woods vividly describes the crisis in modern language teaching, but isn't it time to recognise the contact and overlap points between English and other languages? I recently asked a Norwegian...

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  9. Constructive partner

    The headline of last week's story reporting on responses to the Professional Teaching Standards consultation by the Higher Education Academy, incorrectly suggests that the Heads of Educational...

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  10. Question of credibility

    If a post-92 university chose to pay lip service to widening participation or decided not to participate in the National Student Survey, I'm sure that the tone of your articles "Hefce's grant plan '...

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  11. Purls before time 1

    I know of a physicist who would have disagreed with Bobby Henderson ("Have you been touched by the Monster's noodly appendage yet?", September 2). This scientist said he had "a humble admiration of...

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  12. Purls before time 2

    Flying Spaghetti Monsterism is no more plausible than six-day creationism. As I explain to those who come to my doorstep with the latter theory, the universe was knitted by my grandmother in...

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  13. Tie up your trouser legs, it's an American cockroach

    Is your job making you sick? Olga Wojtas meets the academics for whom nausea, fear and puffy eyes are all in a day's work Plenty of people would say that their job makes them ill, but in Ioana Oltean...

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  14. From David Lodge to David Brent?

    Elaine Showalter, a proud member of the Sabbatical Generation, casts a nostalgic eye over the faculty novel and asks if it is time to bring this classic genre into the noughties On the eve of my...

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  15. Radical pants and the pursuit of happiness

    Jeremy Bentham's legacy included 200 boxes of papers, knitted smalls and himself. Negley Harte welcomes the return of the father of utilitarianism to UCL There was no fanfare to mark Jeremy Bentham's...

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