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  1. First impressions

    This week's competition, in which you must identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an account of a trip with a four-legged travelling companion: "In a little place called Le Monastier, in...

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  4. Laurie Taylor column

    Inbox - Maureen Lupping14@wanadoo... Dear Maureen URGENT. Please don't disregard this email because of the name and address. This is Gordon Lapping here in France. LAPPING. I couldn't get through to...

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  5. Leader: Tightening up or dumbing down?

    When is a move to improve courses an incitement to dumb down assessment standards? Answer: when academics think it is. On the face of it, Middlesex University's policy of instituting a review and...

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    #Opinion

  6. Leader: UK faces testing times

    Cambridge's tests of thinking skills (TSAs) are too new for anyone to be certain that they are a better predictor of subsequent academic success than A levels, but the early signs are promising....

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  7. US lessons and Laura Spence 1

    You rightly say that British universities are competing with their US counterparts ("Global rivalry is good for students", Leader, August 6). But the contest is an unequal one. Harvard University's...

    #Letters

  8. US lessons and Laura Spence 2

    I grow increasingly weary of ploughing through acres of newsprint devoted to what is fast becoming an annual event - the furore surrounding the latest Oxbridge rejectee who claims their mistreatment...

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  9. US lessons and Laura Spence 3

    I am pleased to hear that Laura Spence has decided to pursue further studies at a British university. I would, however, have been happier if you had made clear that the Commons Education Select...

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  10. US lessons and Laura Spence 4

    Your article on the advantages of studying at US universities ("The lure of the broad horizon", August 6) stresses the appeal of a diverse curriculum. Many North American universities were modelled...

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  11. A sneer is no solution

    Frank Furedi's protestations about plagiarism would carry more weight if he were prepared to cite his university's policies as evidence (for or against) rather than jibing at distant institutions,...

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  12. Quelling QAA myths

    Alan Ryan uses his silly season column (Opinion, August 6) to rail against the Quality Assurance Agency and to express astonishment that one of his former students should wish to become its chairman...

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  13. High-handed attack

    The situation at Nottingham University is another example of high-handed management in place of cooperation, arrogance in place of compromise, and imposition in place of negotiation ("Local pay plan...

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  14. No bias in BA

    Your report "BA criticised over handling of £2m award" (July 30) was misleading and presented a distorted picture of the National Audit Office's findings on the award of the British Academy Centenary...

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  15. Make a stand

    George Martin (Soapbox, August 6) is to be congratulated for supporting the boycott of London Metropolitan, but boycotts are not the only answer. How can external examiners be asked to refuse to mark...

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