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Five reasons to last that theory course
Climate and Global Environmental Change - Global Warming - Environmental Physics - Statistical Analysis in Climate Research - Contemporary Climatology
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Laurie Taylor
"The University of Lancashire is to teach its academic staff how to speak to business people in their own language so as to boost their chances of winning commercial funding" - THES , January 19. Now...
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Letter: In all fairness...
The report of the Schneider-Ross consultants who were brought in to look at Cambridge's equal opportunities performance unaccountably left out the students altogether (Soapbox, THES, January 26). "If...
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Letter: 'Fame' rebuttal
While it is always healthy to make space for a Whistleblowers column, it surely behoves The THES to produce balanced research on its stories ("'Fame school' hit by crisis of management", THES,...
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Letter: Out-of-date medicine
Linden West (Features, THES, January 19) uses a quote from an old article by us to support a stereotyped and outdated picture of undergraduate medical education. It is now a legal requirement that...
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Letter: Tory defence danger
The Conservative Party's proposal to privatise British universities would damage the country's economy and defence ("Tories' bold ideas need to show some substance", THES, January 26). Market forces...
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Letter: Coffee break
If teachers at Leeds University still have their own staff coffee room (Letters, THES, January 26), they should congratulate themselves on their good fortune and stop whingeing. Anthony Beck London
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Letter: Golden oldies
A notable feature of the table of vice-chancellors' pay was that many large increases were given to those in their final year before retirement ("Exit under a cloud with a pot of gold", THES, January...
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Letter: Bottom lines
I was interested to read that Baroness Warwick, with whom Association of University Teachers comrades might find it difficult to make small talk when they present our petition, represents UUK (...
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Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (1)
I work in the business school of a "new" university, and most of my students, like those of Frank Furedi, are here only "to get a better job" ("Why I ... think universities are becoming anti-...
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Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (2)
A worrying trend towards what I perceive to be "educational Taylorism" prevails in universities. Many students feel like battery hens - force-fed information solely to produce a perfect exam answer....
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Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (3)
There has been an increasing trend to view the purpose of universities as the production of streams of "work-ready" graduates. Unfortunately, the real losers in this process are the students, who do...
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Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (5)
In Student Focus (THES, January 19), Frank Furedi points to lowest common denominator undergraduate courses devised to meet access targets, while Diane Purkiss contrasts teaching for the bright and...
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Letter: Eggheads versus battery hens (4)
Frank Furedi highlights the difficulty of challenging students intellectually. This problem will grow as younger colleagues are initiated into the Quality Assurance Agency-led culture of reductionist...