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  1. From first bud, drug ban was a real hash

    International treaties to curb cannabis trade and use have been built on the foundations of shaky science and imperial politics, writes James Mills. As British doctors prepare to prescribe a new...

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  2. Bite-sized taster that leads up to full course

    More and more academics spend the holiday period running projects to widen participation. Chris Bunting looks at the success of these schemes in the latest in our summer series. Robert Stewart was 17...

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  3. Reality check

    "Work skills? They're best learnt on the job" ( THES, August 29). What a surprise. This has been known since 1920 when the national certificate/diploma system started. The first scheme was supervised...

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  4. Mature options

    History lecturer Rowena Archer has not been made redundant as you report ("Hard-up Oxford college axes history", THES, August 29), but has elected to take a voluntary redundancy package. Nor does...

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  5. Scant relief

    What three months vacation (Features, THES, August 29)? How to fit three months between last exam boards (July 7-9) and resits (August 26-29)? Up to 100 students take resits and some return in...

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  6. Poor pickings

    Why do we have a visa system ("Home Office rejects call to ditch visa fees", THES, August 22)? Surely it is to control immigration and maintain national security. The beneficiaries are thus taxpayers...

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  7. Small change

    Those who plea for a European Research Council ("No red tape, no strings for ERC", THES, August 22) seem to avoid answering some obvious questions. If the council is to be 100 per cent funded by the...

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  8. Credit is for learning not for life 1

    As founding director and trustee of the Learning from Experience Trust (LET), an independent education charity that introduced the theory and practice of assessment of prior and experiential learning...

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  9. Credit is for learning not for life 2

    Alan Smithers contradicts himself. If higher education is supposed "to add to your general life experience", how can he also describe being excused a chunk of your course in lieu of life experience...

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  10. Credit is for learning not for life 3

    After 20 years of working with Apel in universities, I am dismayed at conservative suspicions from the Quality Assurance Agency. It is arrogant to assume that higher-level learning can be acquired...

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  11. Wordy endeavours

    Latin is not a "detour" to learning other languages (Findings, THES, August 29) but rote learning of declensions and other grammar is. Many English words link well to French, Spanish and even some...

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  12. Numbers don't add up

    Universities can bid to host a new centre for excellence in learning and teaching on the basis of student numbers, with one bid per 5,000 students, three for £15,000, according to the Higher...

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  13. Profit not parity

    Terence Kealey rewrites history in his review of Making Globalization Good (Books, THES, August 29). He implies that so-called free trade helps poorer countries catch up with richer countries in...

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  14. Equitable actions

    Not every woman at Imperial College works in a culture that makes her feel unwelcome and undervalued ("Imperial under fire on equality", THES, August 1). Imperial is not perfect, but your report is...

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  15. Bob's your answer

    Jon May is stumped by a reference to a farthing (Letters, THES, August 22). Authoritative deliberations over the chicken marengo in a St Catherine's SCR Small Dining Room concluded that a farthing...

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