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  5. Laurie Taylor column

    Morning, Doctor Quintock. Looking for your Contemporary Cultural Theory scripts? What's that, Maureen? Your second-marking D106 scripts. They're over there by the window. Next to Narrativity. Maureen...

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  6. Alan Ryan

    Grade inflation makes no difference to the outside world, but academics need to believe in the absoluteness of the A Among the hazards of teaching in an American university are the negotiations over...

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  7. Leader: Pets not the only deserving cause

    Many academics will see this week's report on voluntary giving as just one more step down the slippery slope to anti-intellectual commercialism in universities. The culture of giving is quite...

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  8. Leader: A likely vote-winner

    When the Higher Education Policy Institute produced its first projections of growth in student numbers over the rest of the decade, the figures were so large they were treated with considerable...

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  9. Own goal in grading of degrees 1

    The reform of the system for awarding university degrees in the UK will be meaningful only if it includes a serious look at the issue of bare-minimum requirements ("Degree grades 'are too crude'",...

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  10. Own goal in grading of degrees 2

    Given the love many academics have for football these days, surely it is time to reclassify degree gradings in line with the Football League. A first could be Premiership, a 2:1 could be a first...

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  11. Lose sense of science

    One grows weary of reading that Baroness Greenfield's failure to be shortlisted for Royal Society fellowship represents prejudice, or "club culture", as Geoffrey Alderman alleges, (Soapbox, May 7)....

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  12. What's your carrot?

    I was interested in the implication that concern over attendance is increasing. ("Make your presence felt, stick in that dibber", April 30). I would like to know what other institutions do to...

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  13. Convoy on right tack

    I hope you will forgive a college principal and a former senior tutor if we mark your essay "Oxford's future vision could upset colleges" (May 7), in which you make a number of factual errors. When...

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  14. No student of mine

    In his otherwise very fair review (April 30) of my debate with Gill Langley on animal experimentation, Steve Farrar repeats the myth that Langley was a student of mine at Cambridge University, "who...

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  15. Unclassy system 1

    As a sociologist specialising in educational policy studies, I found your report on students from the middle classes dominating higher education bewildering ("Trainee medics are top of 'posh' league...

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