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  1. Intellect thrives on diet rich in research

    Ominous noises coming from the government are suggesting that the teaching and research link should be severed. That would be a big mistake, says Alan Jenkins. The 1963 Robbins report greeted an...

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  2. The student purse can save us from the mediocre

    Data from US universities appear to show that higher tuition fees translate into better teaching provision, say Peter Andras and Bruce Charlton. The news is full of discussion concerning the cost and...

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  3. Best intellectual reads of 2002

    A dozen of The THES's contributors nominate their favourite books of last year. Helen Davies reports. Philip Anderson , Nobel laureate, professor of theoretical physics, Princeton University, US If I...

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  4. Why we need an academic council 1

    The Mona Baker affair has produced two victims and one casualty - but none carries the name "Baker". The victims are the two academics Baker dismissed from her editorial board because they are...

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  5. Why we need an academic council 2

    Oren Yiftachel's problem in submitting his research paper to the journal Political Geography ("Student unions reject academic boycott of Israel", THES , December 20/) illustrates the indiscriminate...

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  6. Why we need an academic council 3

    Why are the National Union of Students and the Socialist Worker Student Society so selective about whom they boycott? There are poorly treated nationals in many countries but we hear of no similar...

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  7. Fleming's faith

    John Waller writes that by 1930 Alexander Fleming's early optimism in the clinical potential of penicillin had gone (Letters, THES , December 20/). This is not true. Many former St Mary's medical...

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  8. Anti-hooligan rebel

    It is a bit rich to describe me as a "vociferous anti-moderniser" ("Cambridge rebels hold up rejig", THES , December 13). The outgoing administration ran up an eight-figure deficit. It tried to...

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  9. In service 1

    There is a major weakness in Roger Waterhouse's contention that education is "just another service industry" (Soapbox, THES , December 20/). No normal service industry depends for its success on the...

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  10. In service 2

    I was one of those customers referred to by Roger Waterhouse. As a paying student, the basics and image were as important to me as the support. What I encountered were two-hour lectures with little...

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  11. Rated but not related?

    John Saunders (Letters, THES , December 13) has not read my Exchange article carefully. Evidence of the lack of relationship between the quality of a lecturer's teaching and his or her research comes...

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  12. Input more time 1

    John Sutherland (Letters, THES , December 20/) claims that computer science students can spend less than half a working week on study. I teach my course unit - one of four students take - on the...

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  13. Input more time 2

    John Sutherland's fact-shovelling one-year degree would only certify having "done time" (Why I..., THES , December 6). He is confusing learning with education. Learning is based on accumulating...

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  14. Non-nonsense nature

    I do not share Michael Rutter's confidence that the blank-slate view of human nature has been widely rejected (Books, THES , December 13) and think it is unfair to claim that Steven Pinker's The...

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  15. Roll the credits

    Martin Ince likened the author list of some scientific papers to the credits of a Hollywood film (Opinion, THES , December 6). Like them, they should specify contributions. This would give credit to...

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