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  1. Laurie Taylor column

    It's enough to make one a socialist again, isn't it? What's that? All that research done by The Times Higher that shows that students from poor backgrounds stand less chance of securing a place in...

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  2. Leader: Scots merger will raise key issues

    Scotland has often been a trendsetter for UK education, and the furore surrounding the proposed merger of its further and higher education funding councils is no exception. The English system may be...

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  3. Leader: Old system has merits

    For almost a decade, there has been a consensus of sorts among academics that the traditional UK degree classifications have outlasted their usefulness. Only inertia and employers' insistence that no...

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  4. Don't let bill criminalise research

    The Council of Heads of Medical Schools shares the concerns that have been widely expressed about the human tissue bill ("Fears on tissue bill 'are ignored'", April 30). The CHMS strongly supports...

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  5. Contract contretemps 1

    We at lecturers' union Natfhe were surprised to read the letter from Roderick Floud, president of London Metropolitan University, ("Facts over fears", April 30), on the looming dispute over his...

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  6. Contract contretemps 2

    Roderick Floud is mistaken in believing that staff of the former London Guildhall merely fear unreasonable management from London Met. The letters threatening dismissal if they refuse to move to a...

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  7. Contract contretemps 3

    Roderick Floud's letter omits some facts and misrepresents others. He omits the fact that in July 2002 he told trade union representatives that the "default contract" for academic staff at London Met...

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  8. PhDs in poverty

    So rising numbers of ߣߣÊÓƵn students depend on food handouts ("Students forced to live on charity", April 30)? While I sympathise with impoverished undergraduates around the world, I would point...

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  9. Findings are a bit rich

    I am surprised by your report that children from more affluent families are more successful than those from poor families at getting on to many university courses ("Subjects slot into class divide",...

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  10. Facts and famine

    Richard Faragher writes (Letters, April 30) that I implied that "farming causes starvation". What was published was: "Famine did not exist as we see it today until advanced agricultural systems were...

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  11. Let access open eyes

    I find Frank Furedi's ideas useful in challenging commonsense assumptions. But in suggesting a link between widening access and students with an attitude of "you are here to serve me" ("They expect...

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  12. Mind our Language

    Language and Intercultural Communication (reviewed in Books, April 23) is published by Multilingual Matters, not Short Run Press; is quarterly, not bi-annual; and costs £180 ($310/€260) for...

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  13. Fancy a crisp?

    The report by Peter Greenhouse of Bristol Royal Infirmary that youngsters in the country's poorest areas are using crisp packets as condoms provided food for thought. It caused me to reflect on the...

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  14. Mining database gold

    Your ICT supplement (April 30) reminds me that most education organisations offering degree-level professional qualifications have spent vast sums building and maintaining bespoke databases to...

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  15. Ice age ahead will sink us if we kill current of life

    Brian Fagan warns that global warming could shut down the Gulf Stream, locking Europe in a savage winter and the Middle East in a scorching drought for as long as ten centuries. What would happen if...

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