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  1. Schools not at fault 2

    It isn't only numeracy that first-year undergraduates lack. Literacy is also a serious problem, and so is ever-declining subject knowledge (history is a case in point). Clearly, these deficiencies...

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  2. No pressure to fiddle 1

    It is not the case, in my experience, that examination boards "fiddle marks" ("Pass rates are all about the cash", Letters, July 16). Mark adjustment goes on for a variety of valid reasons such as...

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  3. No pressure to fiddle 2

    Your correspondent makes allegations that, if they are true, reflect badly on his/her practice as an examiner and bring universities in general into disrepute. Why does your correspondent hide his/...

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  4. 'Dream on, Lord May' 1

    Speaking from a department that is due to be closed, although it is not struggling, I have considerable sympathy for the funding council's efforts to make universities give a notice period before...

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  5. 'Dream on, Lord May' 2

    Vice-chancellors may warn against "interference in the autonomy of the university" but the Royal Town Planning Institute is relieved to see that the Government wants to make giving a year's notice...

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  6. Blind boycott 1

    Your article "OU professor revives call for Israel boycott" (July 16) discusses one man's call for a boycott of Israeli scientists and academics based on politics. This is contrary to the tenets of...

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  7. Blind boycott 2

    Palestinian campuses are not only hotbeds of anti-Israel activity but are also controlled by active terrorist groups, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which oppose peace with Israel. Palestinian...

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  8. Just one pot of cash

    Your report "Bypass fear for clinical funding" (July 16) gave the misleading impression that the Medical Research Council has separate pots of money for "clinical" and "other" research, and that we...

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  9. Support dyslexics

    In contrast to Peter Shaw ("Worrying case of can't write, won't write?" July 23), I have little concern about "inherently lazy illiterates" masquerading as dyslexics. I remember a seemingly lazy...

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  10. Still weighting for rise

    You say that inner London weighting is now £2,632 a year, rising to £2,726 ("Union says £7 rise will not halt exodus", July 23). On which fortunate souls is such bounty bestowed? Unless I am mistaken...

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  11. Where to find identity if you live in shadows?

    As the Children Bill continues through Parliament, Terry Philpot looks at the problem of private fostering and speaks to two champions of child wellbeing The horrific details of Victoria Climbie's...

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  12. 'The English don't value childhood'

    As the Children Bill continues through Parliament, Terry Philpot looks at the problem of private fostering and speaks to two champions of child wellbeing There are no family photographs discreetly...

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  13. Private matters

    Jacob was just a year old when his Nigerian parents placed him with Janet, his white private foster carer. When he was five, his mother was killed in a road accident and his father returned to...

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  14. A very well-balanced guardian

    As the Children Bill continues through Parliament, Terry Philpot looks at the problem of private fostering and speaks to two champions of child wellbeing The first thing Kathleen Marshall did when...

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  15. Greece lightning

    With two weeks to go, Britain's swimmers are powering their way to the Olympics. Matthew Baker talks to the postgraduates who are preparing them in the latest in our series When Andrew Cruickshank, a...

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