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  1. Universities have key role in reducing poverty

    Universities in developed and developing countries are strongly placed to guide the government in its prime overseas aid aims: halving the numbers living in extreme poverty and achieving universal...

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  2. Flaming protest

    It is good to see the Association of University Teachers looking for novel forms of protest about pay, such as refusing to answer emails for a day ("Bosses condemn strike call", THES, May 14). The...

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  3. Censors and sensibilities

    Gordon Stewart's claim to have suffered from censorship because of his heterodoxy ("What happened to scientists' academic freedom?", THES, May 21) will have irritated epidemiologists, although...

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  4. Censors and sensibilities

    Does being a personnel director who wants to end the statutes of universities make me "hostile", as David Triesman claims ("Threat to academic freedom 'will mean war'", THES, May 21)? Not in my view...

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  5. UfI package deals

    University for Industry will charge about 20 per cent only on UfI learning packages supplied through Learning Centres, not for consortia member's own materials, as stated ("UfI will take cut of brand...

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  6. Support for TVU

    As THES readers will have noted from the recent listing of top-ranking institutions in 70 subjects in the UK, Thames Valley University was one of the three jointly top-rated departments of...

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  7. Whistleblowing

    As a pro-vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, I am uncertain about whether to be complimented or exasperated by the attention we have attracted in your columns recently. I cannot let Phil Baty's...

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  8. Whistleblowing

    For the second week running, Phil Baty's column has attacked Middlesex University. We will keep our comments on "Middlesex jitters" (Whistleblowers, THES, May 14) as brief as possible. Middlesex is...

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  9. How about English Not?

    The "Welsh Not" imposition (Letters, THES, May 14) has entered nationalist mythology. It was a tactic not to destroy Welsh (why should Welsh schoolteachers want to do that?) but to get children who...

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  10. You parasites

    Neither Andrew Oswald's "market-led salaries" ("Pay the going rate", THES, May 7) nor his special-interest critics' alternatives ("Readers' reactions", THES, May 14) are any substitute for real...

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  12. The truth won't out

    Why won't the pope release papers from shameful periods in Vatican history? Michael Walsh reports "Hell" was abandoned in the mid-1960s. "Hell" was the name given to a locked room in the library of...

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  13. Life in the college from hell

    At Wirral Met College, everything that could go wrong did. David Robertson calls for checks on managerial vanity Recently David Blunkett, secretary of state for education, was forced to replace the...

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  14. What gives academic tutors a buzz?

    "The thing which gives me the most pleasure is if astudent walks through the door and says, 'I've got a problem, it's the following. Can you help me?' And then you stand and talk for half an hour or...

  15. In brief

    A special workshop will be held next month to examine the lessons that can be learned from troubled Thames Valley University. The one-day workshop, organised by the Professional Courses Unit at...