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  1. A legal contract is not slavery 1

    First, we had the complaints from some that when they took industrial action employers "docked" wages. Nowhere else would people withdraw their labour and still expect such actions to have no cost....

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  2. A legal contract is not slavery 2

    Along with Robert Cook, I am one of those at Sheffield University who have been advised that they are contractually obliged to remain in post for the research assessment exercise. Despite having...

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  3. A legal contract is not slavery 3

    A contract is a legally binding agreement between parties. When Robert Cook signed his employment contract with Sheffield University he agreed to its terms, including the conditions for terminating...

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  4. A legal contract is not slavery 4

    I am surprised that Robert Cook, a professor of history, is comparing his situation to slavery. I do not recall many slaves earning a professorial salary. RAE or no RAE, a contract is a contract. I...

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  5. Carrot works better 1

    Had Marc Hauser and Ernst Fehr submitted their paper on reform of the reviewing process to a peer-reviewed journal ("Make all see that deadline matters", Opinion, July 6), it would probably have been...

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  6. Carrot works better 2

    So Marc Hauser and Ernst Fehr regard the review process as broken. This is the system whereby academics write papers at work and then hand over the copyright to a commercial publisher for free. Other...

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  7. Let's have pay peace 1

    I would consider myself to be among the "sensible people", described by outgoing Universities and Colleges Employers Association chair Alasdair Smith ("We must sit around a single table", Opinions,...

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  8. Let's have pay peace 2

    Successful bargaining depends on at least tacit agreement about the frame of reference. It isn't possible even to disagree with someone unless you know what they are talking about. The 2006...

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  9. Future compromised

    Letter to the Arts and Humanities Research Council, copied to The Times Higher We are writing as members of the "Future Histories of the Moving Image", an Arts and Humanities Research Council- funded...

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  10. A sense of déjà vu

    Jocey Quinn's article about the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service inviting applicants to record whether their parents attended university ("The truth about the Mummy and Daddy factor",...

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  11. Welcome back!

    I was sorry to learn of the distressing experience of student Changying at Poppleton Museum (Laurie Taylor, July 6) but amazed to see that Dr Piercemuller was also present. This is an extremely rare...

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  12. Trading places...

    London is now home to a super-rich City elite whose presence not only skews the local economy but fuels national and international inequalities. Time, says Doreen Massey, for a new politics of...

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  13. .. and places to do trade with

    More and more universities are switching their investments to ethical portfolios as evidence grows of the financial and PR benefits of responding to student lobbying. Oxford University, which invests...

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  14. Today's lecture: the good Muslim

    Calls for an overhaul of Islamic studies in British universities imply that more 'authentic', moderate Muslim voices are not currently being represented in the syllabus. This is dangerously...

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  15. Public demand boosts Brazil's private colleges

    Scarcity of state university posts drives lecturers to badly paid hourly work in private sector. Jason Mitchell reports A large percentage of Brazilian lecturers who aspire to full-time work at a...

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