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  1. Protect our strengths and work together

    Universities on this side of the Atlantic are also cutting their budgets, but, as at Harvard and MIT, only after taking a long, hard look at how to protect the strengths of their institutions ("An...

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  2. Careless casualisation

    A footnote to the sad record of academic exploitation: universities, it would seem, have cottoned on to the cost-saving strategy of employing staff on 10-month teaching contracts commencing in...

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  3. Is hard work the full story? 1

    Top marks to Wayne Martin ("Students swear by module of 'obscenely hard' work", 11 March) for working "obscenely hard" for students who work "obscenely hard" in return (or is it the other way round...

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  4. Is hard work the full story? 2

    The article "Students swear by module of 'obscenely hard' work" seems to have been published a couple of editions too soon. I was under the impression that such spoof articles appeared in Times...

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  5. Rhetorical take on rhetoric

    As teachers on the first MA in rhetoric in the UK, we found the picture of rhetoric presented in your article "Tony, George and Adolf's fighting talk" (11 March) seriously one-sided.We welcome...

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  6. A partial picture

    Selective quotation can be dangerous ("Wales wants governors not cheerleaders", 11 March). The Governance Review of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales does indeed say that, unprompted,...

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  7. Proof is in the probability

    In his review of Dirk Schulze-Makuch and David Darling's book (We Are Not Alone, 4 March), Ian Crawford criticises the authors for claiming that we have already discovered extraterrestrial life...

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  8. A slight oversight

    I don't know why (other than out of courtesy) Kevin Sharpe exempts Times Higher Education from his criticism of slight book reviews ("Caliban casts out Ariel", 25 February).In the new format "mag" (...

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  9. What's in a name?

    It is ironical that a report from the Adam Smith Institute should advocate the abolition of public funding for higher education ("Taxpayer beware: the hidden costs of public funding's helping hand",...

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  10. Poor defence, after the fact

    Nick Petford's apologia for the misdeeds of Bournemouth University in the Buckland case cannot go unchallenged (Letters, 11 March).It was the view of the Southampton Employment Tribunal that...

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  11. Thanks for the memories 1

    Laurie Taylor's amusing defection from psychology to sociology states that Arthur Summerfield, when head of psychology at Birkbeck, displayed on his desk a stuffed rat, and implies that he was a...

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  12. Thanks for the memories 2

    Laurie Taylor's falling in and out of love with behaviourism makes a good story. But his recollection of Birkbeck is rather different to mine. I graduated there in 1961 and stayed for a PhD, getting...

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  13. Sir Kenneth Dover, 1920-2010

    A classical scholar celebrated for his pioneering work on Greek homosexuality has died.Sir Kenneth Dover was born in London on 11 March 1920 and studied at St Paul's School and Balliol College,...

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  14. University of Oxford - Cost of culture

    The Humanities Division at the University of Oxford is to be reviewed for the first time since it was set up in 2000. A five-year strategic plan published by the division identifies financing as the...

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  15. The more, the merrier

    Our university has announced that it will be following in the steps of the University of Sussex and employing extra staff to handle the current round of redundancies.Speaking to The Poppletonian,...

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