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  1. Vital lesson 1

    The article "Lecturers bored by lessons in teaching" (April 22) presents, at best, one view of postgraduate teaching courses. Selectivity is, of course, inherent in journalistic routines, but I was...

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  2. Vital lesson 2

    The perception that new lecturers do not have time to learn to teach is an interesting one. Do we just assume that the skill of teaching is inherent in anyone who has a PhD? In running postgraduate...

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  3. Vital lesson 3

    I sometimes have a hard time explaining my job to friends in US universities. They wonder why it is that I have to take courses such as the PGCert in academic practice, where most others in my class...

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  4. Tackling racism 1

    I read with disappointment the article about Manchester Metropolitan University ("MMU denies racism claim", April 22), which included allegations and statements by a Unison official, Paul Foley,...

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  5. Tackling racism 2

    There is a world of difference between a nicely produced race equality policy and being truly engaged in promoting diversity within a university. A policy on race equality may be described as...

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  6. Good neighbours?

    News of the "first inter-city coalition" in Scotland to resist concentrations of houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) is welcome ("Residents join to fight student enclaves", April 22). But the...

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  7. Space odyssey

    The letter about Fred Hoyle and panspermia (April 22) may have given readers the impression that Hoyle invented the idea that life came to Earth from space. This idea has a long history. The word "...

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  8. Making the grade

    The implementation of the national framework agreement should deliver equal pay for work of equal value. Equal pay reviews are required and I suggest that reporting now focuses on examining if women...

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  9. Putting theory into practice

    At 21, Hannah Hedges, will be the youngest candidate in the election The good thing about being an undergraduate and standing in the general election is that there is no set pattern to my day. I can...

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  10. What sparks intellectual movements?

    In the 17th century, everything people held true was swept away. Having the rug pulled from under you is a catalyst for shifts in culture, says Anthony Pagden The American philosopher Richard Rorty...

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  12. He's had 68,889 namechecks...

    ... but most people wouldn't know who he is. Anna Fazackerley meets Salvador Moncada, a living legend among scientists I am just working away in a little corner. I'm not interested in the limelight...

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  13. Politics is just a bit on the side

    Good gimmickry engages viewers in the run-up to an election, but it can go too far, says Philip Cowley Ronald Reagan once said that the most frightening words in the English language are: "I'm from...

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  15. Ever felt like a maiden aunt to a brash US youngster?

    Brits used to think of the US as a virgin land filled with opportunity, but that's all changed, Harriet Swain finds While British views of America have become particularly loaded in the past few...

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