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  1. Rights and wrongs of university pay points 2

    The correct salary figure for Geoff Whitty, director of the Institute of Education, should be £193,826. This excludes a refund of pension contributions made following an earlier overpayment of...

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  2. Rights and wrongs of university pay points 3

    The figure provided by the Higher Education Statistics Agency for the pay of senior lecturers/lecturers does not reflect the true position at the University of Oxford because it does not include...

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  3. Rights and wrongs of university pay points 4

    Buried in your analysis of academic pay is the statement that the average salary for male professors is £66,282 while that for their female counterparts is £62,261. It is surely worth underlining...

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  4. Farmers and GM research

    Congratulations on a balanced article that highlights the Economic and Social Research Council's handling of a study of farmers' opinions on GM crops ("ESRC is criticised for 'biased' study", 13...

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  5. Formula for hollow mirth

    Philip Esler (Letters, 13 March) says that your report ("RCUK abandons impact formula", 6 March) and my opinion article ("What price knowledge?, 6 March), "exaggerate" the volte-face by Research...

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  6. The real face of campus life 1

    John Brinnamoor asks for realism in the university prospectus ("Not quite as advertised: college scarves and shameless flannel", 13 March). He would do well to remember that tale by Borges about the...

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  7. The real face of campus life 2

    It should be easy to find photogenic women on our campuses. A glance at media coverage every August - or even page 19 of the very issue of Times Higher Education in which John Brinnamoor writes -...

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  8. An unsure vet

    The possibility of universities "capping" or otherwise restricting - "vetting", "pre-selecting" - grant applications is clearly now on the horizon ("REF may lead to restrictions on grant applications...

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  9. Laws a-leaping

    So Alan Sokal (Book of the Week: Beyond the Hoax, 13 March) continues to invite anyone who believes the laws of physics are "mere social conventions" to try jumping from his 21st-floor apartment. If...

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  10. A pitch for top city 1

    Those of us who enjoy living and working in Norwich were astonished that the city was not near the top of your Halifax-Times Higher Education table for quality of life ("Where the grass is greener",...

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  11. A pitch for top city 2

    May I suggest a simplified quality-of-life table. It has only three criteria, against which I rank my own institution. The first is low property prices - on this Wolverhampton scores well. The second...

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  12. Details are devilish

    Dame Fiona Caldicott, Principal of Somerville College, Oxford (Letters, 13 March), seems inadvertently to imply that the opponents of the proposed Joint Resource Allocation Mechanism cannot have...

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  13. Saudi hopes and fears

    In the article "Imperial signs Saudi deal as first step into Gulf" (13 March), we are told by the UK Higher Education International Unit that all academic staff are to engage with the process of...

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  14. A logo for going forward

    Can there be a doubt about Poppleton's new logo (The Poppletonian, 13 March)? Surely it must be the triangle above the square to remind us all of the tireless efforts of Jamie Targett, going forward...

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  15. The perfect brainstorm

    Are the institutes of advanced study being set up across the UK simply research hotels where academics can enjoy precious thinking time or evidence of a fundamental shift in cutting-edge research?...

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