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  1. Innovation must not be sacrificed

    Patrick Coldstream sums up The THES's recent peer review debate with an outsider's call for more openness, daring and iconoclasm WHEN bright young sparks from science and engineering laboratories...

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  2. Time to leave the past behind

    The Association of Colleges must pull together if it is to play a leading role in the learning revolution, says Colin Flint There have been two defining moments in the short but turbulent life of the...

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  3. Dead end for merger

    DURING my year as president of the Association of University Teachers (1996-97) one of my first actions (together with the AUT general secretary) was to meet the then Natfhe general secretary and...

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  4. Dead end for merger

    The correspondence from your AUT readers shows that they do not understand the position of Natfhe higher education members - lecturers in new universities. The way the question on pay review bodies...

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  5. Dead end for merger

    Nothing is more likely to delay the achievement of a single union to represent academics in higher education than the fostering of the belief that an unreconstructed, further education-dominated...

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  6. Factors at play in falling applications

    ONCE again the drop in applications from mature students is over-simplistically put at the door of changes in student finance (THES, February 13). While the grant and fee (or as it should properly be...

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  7. Factors at play in falling applications

    THE non-appearance of promised plans for lifelong learning reflects government failure to address the pressing needs of older unemployed graduates, among whose ranks I number. This delay is...

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  8. Miracles? Not here

    HUGH Willmott mounts a rather unpleasant attack on staff developers as teaching and learning experts (THES letters, February 13). What must we have done to him to provoke such an outpouring of bile...

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  9. Misuse of microbiology

    WENDY Barnaby is right to urge biologists in academia to think more about the dangers posed by biological weapons, although she has chosen to ignore the work done in this field by institutes such as...

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  10. Full stop in standards

    I CAN confirm the findings of the research that supports the decline in the standard of written English (THES, February 13). Over the past five years or so my experience is that the standard of...

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  11. Uniform references

    contributions on the resource-cost of references (THES, February 6 and 13) seem to miss the obvious question: "By what right do prospective employers expect lecturers to provide unlimited numbers of...

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