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  1. Symptoms of medical malaise 1

    I am horrified that medical schools may be compensated for losses in their teaching grants provided they take students with lower-grade A levels ("Losers could regain grants", THES , August 22). To...

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  2. Resting experts

    Paul Taylor's belief that "research demonstrates the subject expertise one would hope essential" in higher education is touchingly quaint (Letters, THES , August 1). Neither Quality Assurance Agency...

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  3. Criminal error

    Angela Pinter alleges that I have suggested that criminal tendencies are fixed and can be diagnosed at birth (Letters, THES , August 22). At no time have I ever put forward such a ridiculous claim....

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  4. Symptoms of medical malaise 2

    The upward trend in A-level and GCSE results has implications for mature graduates seeking to study medicine. Students obtaining five grade As at A level in the 1980s was unthinkable, yet some...

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  5. Tory tosh

    Damian Green's suggestion that our degree courses are "not proper academic courses" is insulting to the students who work hard to achieve their award and wrong ("Mickey Mouse list is 'ignorant'",...

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  6. Facts and fluff

    Alice Farrands uses questions about Iraqi weapons to argue not that scientists can easily be caught in the political crossfire, but that "their ostensibly technical advice is inflected by their own...

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  7. Symptoms of medical malaise 3

    The lobby for the adoption of scholastic aptitude tests to decide university entry ("Entrance tests will favour wealthy", THES , August 22) should note that these are losing popularity in the US ("...

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  8. Contested histories 3

    Not all authors of official university histories encounter difficulties. Along with the university archivist Carole McCallum, I wrote the history of Glasgow Caledonian University, published in 1998....

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  9. Group therapy

    I was not surprised to read in Peter Levin's article ("Team virgins fear an orgy of togetherness", THES , August 15) that "assigning students to a project and leaving them to get on with it is more...

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  10. Online optimists 1

    While sharing with Alison Wolf a dislike for much bullet-point exhortatory verbiage, I would like to speak up for e-learning (Opinion, THES , August 22). E-seminars can lead to excellent and...

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  11. Online optimists 2

    Readers might think there are no other higher education opportunities in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk other than those at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge University and Suffolk College, ("City...

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  12. Visa madness

    I have just run a major programme at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge. Three Iranians, graduate students and postdocs in the US, were unable to attend because of...

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  13. Contested histories 1

    One excuse proffered by the publisher of the history of the University of Southampton for cutting my contribution was that I was "elderly" ("A hairy tale of how plum jobs can go sour", THES , August...

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  14. Contested histories 2

    Future luckless authors of university histories may wish to know of the pitfalls. My manuscript on Keele University, for example, was criticised for having chapters that were too short - but how long...

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  15. Doing the honours

    My reputation for "impeccable manners" (In the News, THES , August 15) might be threatened if I did not point out that it was my wife, not I, who obtained a masters degree at York. Anthony McClaran...

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