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  1. Leader: Welcome call for clarity

    Only one message will have reached most of the public from Sir Andrew Foster's report on further education: that a significant (but unspecified) proportion of colleges are failing and should be taken...

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  2. Degrees cost but are not for sale 1

    So Sir Howard Newby thinks that the introduction of top-up fees will turn students into consumers and lecturers into service providers ("'Customer' students to call tune", November 11). While his...

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  3. Degrees cost but are not for sale 2

    I was perturbed to read Sir Howard Newby's comments on students as clients. In my experience, students do not wish to "buy a great degree", what they do want is a high level of academic and support...

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  4. Degrees cost but are not for sale 3

    The ideas behind the student as a customer are complex, touching on a variety of issues includingJthe law and dispute resolution, the role of the university and its members, the semiotics of the...

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  5. Divided on divide 1

    Brian Morton is incorrect to conclude that C. P. Snow's two-cultures divide still exists in both directions (Opinion, November 11). Most scientists "do" the arts for fun, everything from reading...

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  6. Divided on divide 2

    Brian Morton's article is a travesty of the famous F. R. Leavis-C. P. Snow controversy - which did not spark a furious debate between the contenders, as Snow did not reply to Leavis. Leavis's central...

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  7. Developing issues 1

    Lecturers' union Natfhe is not alone in its concerns about the atmosphere created by the leadership of Leeds Metropolitan University ("Union accuses v-c of mass bullying", November 4). Unison members...

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  8. Developing issues 2

    Jco-organised and chaired a visiting guest lecture as part of the staff development event at Leeds Metropolitan University. So I'm for staff development. But for Sally Brown to cite 3,500 attendances...

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  9. Crippling lack of cash

    The National Health Service Student Grants Unit has not yet paid childcare allowances or dependants' allowances to huge numbers of student nurses despite being under a legal obligation to do so....

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  10. Gats: a public good?

    Your article "SA claims free trade will undermine national values" (November 11) quotes the chief executive of the South African Council on Higher Education (Saleem Badat) as asserting that "higher...

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  11. Corporate takeover

    Winston Fletcher's review of Stewart Lansley and Andy Forrester's biography of fashion tycoon Philip Green ("Oodles of goodwill for a high-rolling gambler", November 11) omits mention of Green'...

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  12. Where in the world?

    Your story "UK leaps to global success" (October 28) states that all but two of the world's top 200 universities are in Europe, Australasia, the US or Canada. The exceptions are the National...

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  13. Mind your language

    Is it really necessary to use the coarse and gutter language found in one of your news stories ("Know your 'arse' from your 'hello'", November 11)? I thought The Times Higher was a quality newspaper...

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  14. Old Master plan

    One way to ensure the prolonged access, visibility and use of art collections in universities ("When old masters battle with new mistresses", October 28), would be to make them available via the web...

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  15. Silenced by a slippery and subversive slight to liberty

    The Terrorism Bill's proposals to outlaw the 'glorification of terrorism' are half-baked, fly in the face of history and pose a threat to debate, insists Charles Townshend Last week, Tony Blair's...

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