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  1. The peril of students' appraisal 1

    Poor response rates are not the only problem with the planned annual student satisfaction survey ("Just 10 students may blight careers", THES, June ). The wording and scoring cast severe doubt on the...

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  2. The peril of students' appraisal 2

    Where is the evidence that students at "high-ranking universities... judge their institutions more critically than students at less-prestigious universities because the latter have lower expectations...

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  3. The peril of students' appraisal 3

    Reliable information is unlikely to be gleaned from student responses to the sample survey questions you print. A question about libraries asks for strength of agreement with a positive statement;...

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  4. The peril of students' appraisal 4

    The student satisfaction survey will be invalid not only because responders differ in opinion from non-responders, but also because the agree/disagree boxes are flawed. The array of five boxes...

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  5. The peril of students' appraisal 5

    The annual student survey is wrongly positioned and technologically underpowered. It would be better to ask universities how they gather students' opinions, how they examine the efficacy of their...

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  6. Confident assertions 1

    I was interested to read Sir Christopher Ball's article on students' low self-esteem ("Inspire your students to blow their own trumpet", Opinion, THES, June ). I have found lack of confidence to be...

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  7. Confident assertions 2

    I was disappointed with Christopher Ball's reference to disabled people. In identifying self-esteem as "key to success in higher education", Ball says that this can be learnt and taught by anyone "...

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  8. It's London calling

    I was delighted to see Sir Derek Roberts citing London Technology Network ("Narrow focus key to London innovation", THES, June 13) but concerned that this may have left readers confused. London...

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  9. Time to bite back

    As acting chair of the Better Regulation Review Group, I was surprised by the contents of your article "DFES bitten by its own red-tape watchdog" ( THES, June ). The group's work is important. The...

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  10. No stinting on facts

    While I sympathise with Graeme Garrard about graduate supervision at Oxford University (Letters, THES, June ), one sentence is misleading. True, graduates pay hefty fees, but supervisors receive only...

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  11. Deep in genetic pool 1

    Alison Wolf argues that "statistics are a poor way of explaining bias" in degree results (Opinion, THES, June ). But they can provide part of the answer for male-female bias. Fewer firsts and thirds...

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  12. Deep in genetic pool 2

    Alison Wolf's inferences about gender are fundamentally flawed. Even if there was no genetic basis for difference in ability between the sexes, there would still be differences in social and...

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  13. A little clarity, please 1

    As widening participation premiums will be paid on the basis of students' and their parents' previous education, the Open University is not scoring an "own goal" by offering the Beckhams free Spanish...

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  14. A little clarity, please 2

    In your honours list report, you describe T. R. Miles, the dyslexia expert, as a professor of pshychology. You send promotional material to me at the Department of Pyschology. I wish you would get it...

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  15. A little clarity, please 3

    If Richard Grove is searching for a report on soil erosion in Queensland, help may be at hand ("Don't pulp the past", THES, June ). Francis Ratcliffe's 1937 report on soil erosion in southwest...

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