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  1. Dependable data

    The raw data on salaries referred to by Giles Dove of Stirling University and Roderick Floud of London Guildhall University (Letters, THES, June 9) were provided to the Association of University...

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  2. Dependable data

    It was useful to learn from Roderick Floud, provost of London Guildhall University, that his institution has such a diverse body of students and that "about half are ethnic minorities". Could we now...

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  3. Derby revisited

    Your report (News, THES, June 9) about the subject review of pharmacy and pharmacology at the University of Derby was misleading. Those subjects were previously considered in a single unit that...

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  4. Unpractising preacher

    I fully support the aims of the Institute for Learning and Teaching, but whatever one thinks of the merits or otherwise of "glorifying" individual "excellence in teaching", the ILT, in administering...

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  5. Informed judgements

    Karen Gold in her fascinating article on archival secrets ("Pens poised, paper waits", THES, May 19) cited Richard Aldrich as saying that closed bodies of documents are normally unremarkable. It...

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  6. Divided we fall

    Natfhe is not being sectarian in the debate over the funding of higher education, as Alan Carr surprisingly suggests (Letters, THES, June 9). We have consistently argued that the whole sector...

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  7. Irregular resumes

    I was extremely concerned to see the suggestion from Paul Coleshill that "most" academic CVs contain "anomalies" (THES, June 2). Quite the contrary, most academics go to great care to check even the...

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  8. Feeding the fat Russell locusts

    I am concerned that the government has caused, albeit for the best of motives, a recruitment imbalance that will do serious harm to a number of universities. These are the institutions that depend on...

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  9. Feeding the fat Russell locusts

    In his discussion of admission procedures at Oxford University, Valentine Cunningham ("Prejudice, yes; at Oxford, no", THES, June 9) argues that "many state-school children and their families...

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  10. (Loosely) based on a true story

    Jeffrey Richards has had his fill of Hollywood's recasting of world history with exclusively American players. Hollywood is at it again - rewriting history. This time, it is the second world war that...

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  11. Readers' reactions

    Last month in The THES.. Andrew Oswald called on the government to increase fees paid by students to universities. Andrew J. Morgan. University of Wales Swansea. It is sophistry to argue that fees...

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  12. Curtail this cash crisis

    As professors quit Britain's crisis-ridden universities, Kenneth Baker calls for funding changes. Our universities are in crisis, suffering from chronic underfunding. The government has received...

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  13. Why I...think Oxbridge MA degrees should be scrapped

    Jackie Lawrence. Labour MP for Pembrokeshire. Last week she put forward an Early Day Motion for the phasing out of the Oxbridge MA: 43 MPs signed it. I did not know that Oxbridge graduates can pay a...

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  14. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a pied noir witha red complexion: "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is...

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