Letter: QAA moratorium (1)
There must be a moratorium on Quality Assurance Agency reviews (Letters, THES , September 7). Nothing will be gained by rushing into another elaborate system of audit as proposed by the QAA....
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Letter: QAA moratorium (2)
John Randall's examples of "weaknesses threatening standards at some of Britain's universities" ("Mr Randall points out the fallible", THES , September 7) are interesting in the light of the...
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Letter: In brief (1)
Congratulations on your "Eyewitness" on shark conservation ( THES , August 31), but the sand tiger shark ( Carcharias taurus ) pictured is a strikingly different creature from a tiger shark (...
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Letter: In brief (2)
Your article "Bristol quizzed over abuse files" claimed the university sold the computer in question ( THES , September 7). It didn't. The computer was sold by a student to whom it had been on loan....
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Letter: In brief (3)
To deny that universities have products and customers is not to "fail to mention what they do have" (Letters, THES , September 7). When I teach a class of students I know they are students. What I do...
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Letter: In brief (4)
The amount of publicly available climate change information is a positive development for the Kyoto Protocol and for whatever eventually succeeds it ("The naive optimist", THES, August 24). For those...
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Letter: Complex design
Sebastian Loew heaps negativity on Blackwell's A Companion to the City (Books, THES , September 7). He says it is "second best" to articles in refereed journals (Loew's own journal is not refereed)...
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Letter: Light at end of tunnel?
We are heartened to hear reports that the government is considering a rethink on tuition fees ("Call for reform pits students against staff", THES , August 31). The government's commitment to get...
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Letter: Profit from partners
Alan Marsh's article (Opinion, THES , August 31) on the benefits of partnership between further education colleges and universities is timely. "HE in FE" has a vital role to play in meeting the...
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Letter: Recognition, please
No wonder Steve Molyneux says: "There are a number of initiatives... but they are not talking to each other." ("Adult access model muddled", THES , September 7). Neither Sir David Watson (front page...
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Leader: Caught in Catch-22 of widening participation
Beyond the lurid glare of this week's events, quiet discussion has been going on about the future of universities: who should enrol; how should they be regulated; and how should students be supported...
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Leader: Academia must provide balance in face of terror
Faced with the horror of this week's events in the United States, what contribution can the academic world make? First, counter the temptation to rush to judgement. In such crises the media, and...
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Digging up dirt and DNA
Martin Jones tells Chris Bunting about the event that changed the face of modern archaeology as well as his own career. About 15 years ago, Martin Jones realised that archaeology was about to change...
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Mind, matter and the search for the 'self'
In our series on Big Science Questions, Keith Sutherland looks at conflicting explanations of consciousness and asks how close we are to the 'final frontier'. Throughout the 1990s - christened the "...
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What you see may not be what you get
Susan Blackmore goes in search of her 'self' and finds that it may just be part of the 'other'. Why am I here? Who am I anyway? Why does everything feel, look and hurt like this? I have been asking...