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  1. The man with sights on gangland targets

    As UK gun crime escalates, Adam James talks to policy adviser Nick Tilley The murder of two teenage girls in a hail of bullets during a new year's eve party in Birmingham provoked a clamour of...

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  2. Quiet man hopes for revolution of the mind

    Tony Holland, Cambridge's new chair of learning disability, came into the subject by chance. He talks to Terry Philpot In October 2000, health minister John Hutton hailed the white paper on learning...

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  3. 'Bullying destroyed my self worth'

    University support staff are complaining of a huge rise in cases of bullying. Is a hierarchical environment to blame? Harriet Swain reports Jane (not her real name) can no longer face going into the...

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  5. Your task: identify the root of the falling interest

    The inquiry into how to raise the popularity of maths, lift students' skills and end the dearth of teachers is not a theoretical exercise. Its chair tells Martin Ince that he expects to see his...

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  6. Size does not matter for the arts 1

    The government wrongly equates research excellence with institutional concentration in its Future of Higher Education white paper ( THES , January 24). In doing so, it risks imposing a model drawn...

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  7. Size does not matter for the arts 2

    The white paper argues against the link between teaching and research while acknowledging that "scholarly activity" is necessary to sustain quality. Its "heavy" science model favours large centres...

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  8. Underperform on pay 1

    It is galling that lecturers' union Natfhe's efforts to work in partnership with employers to deliver modernised pay structures, and on the access agenda so lauded by this government, has led to a...

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  9. Underperform on pay 2

    The white paper provides much entertainment in spotting the "old chestnuts". For example, the 1968 Prices and Incomes Board report proposed to reward the best teachers, to earmark a percentage of the...

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  10. Underperform on pay 3

    The belief that the £330 million of funding council money for recruiting and retaining staff ("Pay boost will come at a price", THES, January 24) has been "earmarked for staff pay" is wide of the...

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  11. Flaws in fees policy 1

    The argument for top-up fees ("Fees can be up to £3,000 - with Whitehall strings," THES , January 24) is based on flawed logic and a failure to learn from Australia, which introduced a similar higher...

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  12. Flaws in fees policy 2

    A £20,000 debt is surely a disincentive to students from deprived backgrounds to study purely academic subjects, such as philosophy, and an incentive to follow vocational degrees, such as law. If we...

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  13. Flaws in fees policy 3

    It is easy to force social compliance when most have gone to university and end up owing the government money? The consequence of undergraduate debt will be plummeting graduate recruitment. Result:...

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  14. Take a look at taboo

    It is ironic, if not irresponsible, to suggest we reassess our moral attitude to incest when we fear the family is under threat ("Heart steers head onto right track", THES , January 24). Our distant...

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  15. New end to old story?

    Bias against women in higher education is not new ("Bias cheats women out of places", THES , January 17). In the early 1970s, the Open University discovered that, despite its first-come, first-served...

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