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  1. Publish and be damned 2

    So the Quality Assurance Agency has decreed that it will endorse the standard of degrees awarded by London Business School and Cambridge University only if the institutions act on its recommendations...

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  2. Incompetent boards

    If the government introduces baccalaureate-style diplomas, let's hope it investigates A-level boards ("Bac may force change to degrees", THES , October 24). Universities have to deal not only with...

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  3. Question of freedom

    Andrew Sanders complains (Letters, THES , October 17) that "academic freedom and intellectual depth in law school programmes are grossly compromised because of interference from professional bodies...

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  4. More Frank debate 1

    Frank Furedi's provocative article "Get rid of those professional stabilisers" ( THES , October 17) is a useful reminder that counselling and psychotherapy have come of age. As a member of the "...

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  5. More Frank debate 3

    There must be an awkward atmosphere at Kent, where the sociology department seems to have employed two professors called Frank Furedi. One is the Furedi who wrote that nice article (Men who juggle...

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  6. More Frank debate 4

    Last academic session, little more than a third of our clients came to counselling because of depression, measured in terms recognised by GPs, and anxiety, symptoms of which included phobic behaviour...

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  7. Outdated obsession

    Peter Lampl suggests Britain is being left behind in the science race (Soapbox, THES , October 24). In saying that Oxford's chemistry department has no Nobel prizewinners on the premises, he implies...

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  8. No claim on ambition

    Bill Durodié unwittingly illustrates one of the sources of the anti-American feeling that he hopes to understand ("The fear and self-loathing in Las Vegas", THES, October 24). When he claims that "...

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  9. More Frank debate 2

    Frank Furedi's professional references seem based on a single British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy press release dated June 2003. He misquotes a statement by me about the changing...

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  10. More support makes the road to PhD less rocky

    With doctoral supervision set to undergo radical change, Chris Bunting kicks off a THES series tracking four students over the duration of their research. The PhD thesis was so awful that there...

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  11. Cash in the bank, eyes on the goal

    Jane Suter is unusually focused for a doctoral student. She has a very clear idea of her direction of research -which may take only two years -and a distinction in her MSc means that she is well...

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  12. Optimist looks to fruitful alliance

    Russian Alisa Chukanova has just arrived at Southampton University to start her PhD and is feeling hopeful about a future in UK academia: "I just came yesterday. My first impression is very good. If...

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  13. Bursary to reveal diverse identity

    Helen Taylor's commitment to refugee causes gives her PhD in refugee studies at the University of East London the air of a personal mission. "This is a crucial field, especially with the negative...

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  14. Nobel path to medical benefits

    It came as a bit of a shock to Lisa Willats when, two weeks after she started her PhD, the men who pioneered her area of research, magnetic-resonance imaging, were awarded a Nobel prize. "It put a...

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  15. After the deluge, the real troubles begin

    A unique centre studying the impact of floods on people is at risk if funding is concentrated. Anna Fazackerley reports What happens to flood victims in the UK when the water levels have gone down...

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