ILT recruiting tactics queried
Like many other readers, I have pondered this summer whether or not I would support the Institute for Learning and Teaching. However, my mind was made up for me after reading the announcement that...
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ILT recruiting tactics queried
Your brief item, "Health workers offered ILT membership" (For the record, THES, August 18), was misleading in omitting to say that "registered nurses, midwives and health visitors who qualified with...
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Marked race card
Your editorial fingers are, as uncannily as ever, on the pulse of the profession and the wider national mood (Books, THES, August 18). In a week when the academic disinclinations of Britain's...
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Nurturing rapport
I was encouraged to see that Agony Aunt (Teaching, THES, August 18) was approached by a new research supervisor seeking advice on how to build a good rapport with students, but deeply depressed by...
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DFEE's role in Derby
The Quality Assurance Agency report on allegations against University of Derby operations in Israel raises issues the sector needs to address urgently ("Minister says UK tarred by Derby affair", THES...
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DFEE's role in Derby
It is not true that the QAA 1998 audit of the University of Derby's link with Israel failed to spot the weaknesses on which we reported earlier this month. As with many such links we found strengths...
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Working holiday
Robert Walls perpetrates against university teachers the oldest libel in the book by equating contact hours with the total number of working hours (Letters, THES, August 18). All teachers have to...
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Hindutva dangers
The decision of India's University Grants Commission to introduce a degree course for the Hindu priesthood ("Liberals attack priests' degree", THES, August 11) is not only imprudent, but may have...
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Heritage lottery blues
Kingston had a similar experience to Durham University with the Heritage Lottery Fund ("Lottery rejects castle repairs", THES, August 11). Last January, I applied for Pounds 78,000 to support the...
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Spelling mistake
As the only person in my university who seems not to have changed his German spelling, I am heartened by Frankfurter Allgemeine and Deutscher Hochschulverband support ("Germans say no to simplified...
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A true test of talent
John Stein turned down Laura Spence. He is developing a test to identify smart students for Oxford Laura Spence has done brilliantly to get five As, despite the furore that followed Gordon Brown's...
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The price is definitely not right
Jeremy Hoad asks why universities spring extra costs on postgrad students, often when they can least afford them Consider this. You walk into a car showroom, choose a car, look at the price on the...
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Next week
NEWS Clearing: how was it for you? Features An Eskimo in New York: the anthropological study that led to tragedy Books The lesser-known side of Jorge Luis Borges - is his non-fiction as quirky and...
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Asuncion
Medical professors at Paraguay's Universidad Nacional de Asuncion have petitioned their rector for urgent funding to rectify poor facilities at the capital's teaching hospital.
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Kampala
An academic registrar at Makerere University in Uganda has been recommended for dismissal by an internal commission that found evidence that he enrolled unqualified students with forged certificates...