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  1. How to kick back when you're left on the shelf

    More academics should test whether New Labour can countenance argued opposition, says Angela McRobbie This week saw two seemingly conflicting events. First, the government permitted the arrest of...

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  2. Disability, dishonesty and maths

    It is horrifying that the kind of blinkered prejudice against individuals with specific learning disabilities expressed by sociologist Frank Furedi ("Examiners buckle under an avalanche of excuses",...

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  3. Disability, dishonesty and maths

    I am amazed at Frank Furedi's allegation that a learning support tutor in a university with a "respectable" sociology department can intervene in the awarding of examination marks. This practice is...

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  4. Disability, dishonesty and maths

    I was entertained to see my old comrade Frank Furedi banging on about cheats and cheating. Despite my amusement I do share his dismay at the proliferation of ill-defined disabilities among students...

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  5. Disability, dishonesty and maths

    By focusing on the assessment, Frank Furedi fails to consider the barriers to learning encountered by disabled students. Those prepared to identify themselves as disabled will encounter...

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  6. Disability, dishonesty and maths

    Frank Furedi is concerned students are spuriously claiming to be disabled so they can get "special treatment" in examinations. The problem lies with universities. Many universities do not have proper...

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  7. Disability, dishonesty and maths

    I am grateful to Frank Furedi. Despite his thinly disguised scepticism, he has convinced me that the difficulties almost all second-year physics students experience with the mathematics have nothing...

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  8. Media inflation

    In my piece ("Don't knock the messengers", THES, October 16) defending media studies from the ravages of journalistic antipathy, I too became a victim. The article gives the impression that I...

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  9. Restore the balance

    We should not sound too apocalyptic a note on teacher training ("Teacher training crisis deepens", THES, October 16). The situation is not one of terminal collapse but of progressive instability. We...

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  10. Restore the balance

    Far from planning to "withdraw teacher training courses", the University of Hertfordshire places continuing development in the full range of its teacher education provision as a high priority in its...

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  11. Restore the balance

    Manchester Metropolitan University is committed to its full range of initial teacher training courses. Any adjustment in shortage areas between our two major campuses at Didsbury and Crewe would...

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  12. Registering surprise

    I was surprised to read of Hilary Wilson's experience on registration day at Royal Holloway (Letters, THES October 16). Our policy is to allow local education authority-assessed students to pay in...

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  13. What's happening?

    It is a bit rich of Richard Rorty, of all people, to complain that students these days have little sense of what's happening in the world ("Engage with the world", THES, October 16). Can this be the...

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  14. Why I ... think heroin should be legalised

    The prevalence of illicit drug use of all kinds has gone up and up among all sections of society, all age groups and across all drugs over the past 15 years. Alongside this we have had an increasing...

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  15. Bankrupt advice

    American and British academics should take the blame for Russia's crisis, says Michael Haynes After the fall come the recriminations. With the Russian economy in crisis they are beginning to appear...

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