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  1. Damned statistics 3

    Pay discrimination between ethnic-minority and other staff is impossible to verify if variables such as qualifications, age and experience are not taken into account ("St Andrews attacked on ethnic...

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  2. Ins and outs of race 1

    Ian McDonald identifies with Sussex University students and their claimed fear of being taught by someone who "deems them genetically inferior" ("No refuge for racists within the academy", THES ,...

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  3. Ins and outs of race 3

    Ian McDonald argues that Geoffrey Sampson's views represent British National Party-style attitudes. Odd then that Sampson says whites tend to have a lower IQ than Asians. McDonald thinks that anyone...

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  4. We want money without mafia 1

    Gordon Graham's diagnosis of what ails higher education - political indifference to education beyond its immediate economic and social engineering potential (Soapbox, THES , June 14) - is correct,...

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  5. We want money without mafia 2

    I was delighted that vice-chancellors plan to raise extra income for universities ("Universities unite in call to hike fees", THES , June 14). I began to muse on what that might mean: better...

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  6. Islam and pluralism

    C. W. Watson ("Open up to a very creative culture", THES , June 14) tries to use anti-essentialism to defend Islam but misunderstands both. The former does not imply that discourses have any or no...

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  7. Irish centre still going

    Queen's University's Institute of Irish Studies is not to close ("Irish institute could close", THES , June 7). It is to be reinvigorated with significant extra resources that will allow it to draw...

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  8. Ins and outs of race 2

    I was glad to see that "racialism" is "as natural as sexual feelings between the opposite sexes". That's 10 per cent of the population we don't need to worry about, then. Zoë-Jane Playdon Co-chair...

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  9. Career conundrums 1

    I empathise with Alice Smyth in being "disillusioned with degrees" ("Why I...", THES , June 14). I too am in the casual labour market with a teaching degree, two masters and a PhD from the Open...

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  10. Laurie Taylor

    The improvement in degree classes is attributable to the increased use by universities of feedback and continuous assessment - Education Quarterly. Professor Lapping, Sally is here. Sally? Sally...

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  11. Leader: Freedom to set v-c pay requires transparency

    In the era of the £100,000-a-year head teacher and the £250,000-a-year civil servant, vice-chancellors are not overpaid. But as the Higher Education Funding Council for England has said in response...

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  12. Leader: Feel the power of universities' financial punch

    Another spending review, another report underlining the importance of universities to the economy. They would say that, wouldn't they? Up to a point, of course they would, but the analysis published...

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