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  1. Elusive evidence 1

    Graham Gibbs describes support in a student survey for more teacher training as "striking" ("Part-time effort for full-time degrees", September 28). What is really striking is the very thin basis for...

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  2. Elusive evidence 2

    In the "for and against" rankings a few weeks ago ("Debate reignited by new league tables", August 17), you omitted one of the most telling factors against, which is again relevant in the students...

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  3. Citing the obvious

    The error I discovered in the Thompson Scientific ISI database ("Metrics marred by doubt", September 21) could not have arisen because of "the way a citation had been written", as alleged by the...

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  4. UCU pursues fairness

    Hazel Dewart questioned the marginally higher level of subscription charged to former Natfhe members as opposed to former Association of University Teachers members of the University and College...

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  5. Make it simple

    Ben Goldacre criticises my attack on the Ingelfinger rule on the grounds that journalists cannot be trusted to report research accurately, no matter at what stage of the publication process a paper...

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  6. Wine and poses

    Julian Baggini ends his review of Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine (Books, September 21) by telling us it "is to be... enjoyed... because the questions it wrestles with will intoxicate the...

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  7. Don't stint on maths

    Jim Al-Khalili argues that one should not consider the new ISciences degrees to be a "science-lite soft option" but rather the gateway to "a career in some cutting-edge research field" (Opinion,...

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  8. Sausage-free state

    Harriet Swain made perfect sense in suggesting that as lecturers we must involve students in the knowledge-making process ("Ready to furnish tools of thought", September 28). But isn't that what a...

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  9. Documenting injustice

    Stephen Desmond tells the story behind his film for al-Jazeera on the illegal abduction of former PLO stalwart Jaweed Al Ghussein - by the PLO In 2005, I was an academic teaching in the UK with a...

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  10. Budding of suburbia

    What induces big-name authors to teach on the growing number of creative writing courses, and is it a subject that can be taught anyway? Harriet Swain meets two new converts to the academic cause,...

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  11. Â鶹 tweet home

    What makes some birds spend years perfecting their nests, why do spiders spin webs, and who has the blueprint for the queen bee's palace? Karen Gold gets the answers from the UK's only professor of...

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  12. Le chat sat on the mat

    For those who are multilingual, switching between languages is often unconscious. But, asks Geoff Watts, what triggers the switch and what happens when the controlling mechanism goes wrong? Digging...

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  14. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a prizewinning historian: "However much they might have agreed on the need for accuracy and...

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