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  1. 'Sloppy' PhD should be revoked 1

    The response of Birmingham University to your report on the controversy surrounding the PhD thesis by Charlotte Exon about Rudolf Schwarz ("University under fire for flawed PhD thesis", February 9)...

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  2. 'Sloppy' PhD should be revoked 2

    In its "right to reply", Birmingham University said it had "absolute confidence that the award of doctorate, after rigorous and scrupulous external examination, was fully merited". In which case, the...

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  3. Programmed to thrive

    Your recent opinion piece about the possible death of computer science (Opinion, February 9) is a timely and pertinent wake-up call for the academic community. Although there are some rather crude...

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  4. Annoying Day job

    Thanks for ruining my weekend with your latest issue. I suppose in the good old days, when we had staff rooms, there'd be a corner where people such as Gary Day (Columnist, February 16) could mutter...

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  5. Let's get enlightened 1

    In an instructive and illuminating review of Jonathan Israel's Enlightenment Contested (Books, February 16), Simon Blackburn concludes by regurgitating an example of the "invisible dogma" that...

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  6. Let's get enlightened 2

    Is there a chance, for once, of correcting and disabusing analytic philosophy of the canard that the Frankfurt School was hostile to the ideals of reason, freedom, democracy and so on, in Simon...

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  7. Respect the PGCEs

    I enjoyed Richard Austen-Baker's parody of Chris Woodhead (Letters, February 16), in which he employs Woodhead's gift for insult, ill-informed dogmatism and hysterical prejudice to dismiss PGCEs. But...

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  8. QAA gives fine support

    Regarding your report "QAA pans uneven postgrad support" (February 16) - far from "panning" "uneven postgrad support", in our recent reviews of postgraduate research programmes, the Quality Assurance...

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  9. I swear I like taboos

    Swearing, epithets and other linguistic taboos are a fascinating yet poorly understood aspect of language, and I have yet to meet a person who isn't intensely curious about the phenomenon. The topic...

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  10. Cheat challenge

    Sunny Bains's way forward in dealing with plagiarism cases offers a new slant on handling such offences (Opinion, February 16). However, I find it a trifle naive that an academic department should...

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  11. LSE does not brag

    None of the academic staff at the department of government at the LondonSchool of Economics would seriously claim that we are "the best in the UK, no question" (Peep's Diary, February 16). Nor have I...

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  14. Project Grants

    Deadline: 11/04/2007

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