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  3. An illustration of an audience of conference delegates

    Conferences mean high times but low returns

    Academic gatherings may be fun, but they do little to advance knowledge. To justify the public spending that supports them, such events must do more to provide benefits to those who don’t attend,...

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  6. University and College Union members demonstrate during pensions row

    The USS strike and the winter of academics’ discontent

    The protests against pensions reforms reflect not just self-interest but also anger about working conditions and a sense that universities are losing their way. Jack Grove explores how proposed...

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  9. A huge plastic dinosaur in the back of a lorry

    The threat to standards in UK universities

    While their credentials are not in dispute, institutions could have their teaching and research undermined by a crisis in morale

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  11. Give staff space to flag concerns about inequality

    Kalwant Bhopal’s call for universities’ funding to be linked to their efforts to address racial inequality (“Tie funding to tackling racial inequality, says professor”, News, 29 March) needs early...

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  12. Dangerous stance

    The co-authors’ response (Letters, 22 March) to my review of Transgender Children and Young People: Born In Your Own Body (Books, 15 March) miscasts my critique as personalised. I did not call them “...

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  13. End the ‘ee’ trend

    I do hope that Robert Zaretsky’s tribute to Simone Weil (“Wait – and see”, Opinion, 29 March) will be read by organisers of academic conferences and other events. They should, then, abandon the term...

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  14. Unconditional fail

    Much of the problem in “As the lowest rise, so too do fears of grade inflation” (News, 5 April) is not because of grade inflation but the issue of the “unconditional for all” approach seen in much of...

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