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  1. Tedious science

    Do we need a science base? Do we need what Jenkins calls "that defunct concept, a manufacturing base"? Britain's manufacturing exports last year were worth Pounds 170 billion. By comparison, our...

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  2. Hijacking the agenda

    Educational research has come in for much criticism recently, but what is involved is not simply a debate about the quality of the work being done. While James Tooley, professor of education at...

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  3. In short...

    The statement that employers "restrict their recruiting to older universities" ("Power of purse used to drive skill bandwagon", THES, September 18) cannot go unchallenged. Employers may target a...

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  4. Listen to the whistling in the dark

    John Randall is spot on in saying that "the best way forward is for institutions to get complaints-handling right first time", as is Dennis Farrington when he suggests the archaic visitor system is "...

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  5. Listen to the whistling in the dark

    Self-regulation facilitates friend-of-friend networks, bullying and whitewashing to protect staff careers and commercial viability. What we really need to tackle are the anachronistic notions that...

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  6. A licence to fail

    I read with a growing sense of despair about the proposals for a "licence to teach" ("Cash carrot to enforce training", THES, September 11). Organisations such as the Institute for Learning and...

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  7. Non-existent ops

    I am surprised that Michael Banner, chair of the UK's Animal Procedure Committee, is reported as being exercised by the question of transplanting pigs' hearts into chimpanzees ("Less death in the lab...

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  8. Black to the future in the classroom

    Publishing performance tables of teacher trainers will help boost the number of black teachers, says Anthea Millett. The Teacher Training Agency today published the first national profiles of the...

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  9. Mates past their prime

    Veteran research chimps must be saved from extermination, says James Mahoney. For the second time in recent years, laboratory chimpanzees in the United States face a crisis. What will become of...

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  10. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its openingsentence, is from a provocative critic of Althusserian Marxism: "For some time, for many decades, the materialist...

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