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  1. Leader: Heels dig in all around

    The Association of University Teachers has declared itself "astonished" at the employers' refusal to hold negotiations next week unless industrial action is suspended. It should not be: both sides...

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  2. Chemistry cuts will prove toxic 1

    Investing in strong disciplines such as biochemistry while simultaneously eliminating the foundation on which this discipline is based exposes a crass ignorance at Sussex University of the role of...

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  3. Chemistry cuts will prove toxic 2

    Peter Atkins hit many nails firmly on the head in his opinion article about the demise of chemistry ("Stop counting beans, start planting trees", March 17). How can any educational establishment dare...

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  4. Chemistry cuts will prove toxic 3

    It can be of no surprise that yet another chemistry department is closing. And it is some vice-chancellors who must share in the blame, although not quite for the reasons given by Peter Atkins. The...

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  5. Chemistry cuts will prove toxic 4

    A decade ago we saw the closure of a series of physics departments, and attrition within the survivors continues. Now it seems to be the turn of chemistry. This cannot be good for a modern country...

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  6. Manifesto for Marx 1

    The fact that Alison Wolf's students are indifferent to Marx's theories (Columnist, March 17) may say less about the theories and more about the times in which her students have grown up. During this...

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  7. Manifesto for Marx 2

    Alison Wolf's view of Marx's faded relevance is too narrow. My English literature students are interested in Marxism not because they find it a political gospel, but because it offers a bolder...

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  8. Manifesto for Marx 3

    In her article Alison Wolf equated "Marx" with "Marxism". How can someone of her standing make such a basic error? One answer would be that she has an agenda that aims to discredit critical theories...

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  9. Proud to speak out 1

    I refuse to apologise to Tariq Modood or Sara Wajid ("Secular, liberal and doggedly fundamentalist", March 17) for Western universities being cathedrals of secular liberalism. If this offends Muslim...

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  10. Proud to speak out 2

    Has multiculturalism become a topic on which most sociologists need to express their views anonymously? You published the views of six sociologists on whether multiculturalism is under threat in the...

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  11. No longer family affair

    That Piero Tosi, the president of the Italian Rectors' Conference, has been suspended for allegedly favouring his son's appointment to a university hospital ("Siena imbroglio", March 10) will...

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  12. Two sides of debate 1

    The article comparing employers' and unions' claims ("Round one: employers and unions square up", March 17) clearly illustrates the different approaches taken by the two sides to the use of data. The...

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  13. Two sides of debate 2

    There is no more certain way to exacerbate the higher education pay dispute than for a few vice-chancellors to interfere in what is a UK-wide multi-union action. If they dock the pay of academics...

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  14. Evidence needed

    No, Richard Austen-Baker (Letters, March 17) may not point out that the adoption of "look and say", "real books" and "positive marking" in British schools has "had a disastrous effect on pupils'...

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  15. Issues about epic find

    I read with some concern Tom Palaima's review of Odysseus Unbound by Robert Bittlestone, James Diggle and John Underhill (March 10). The authors' hypothesis is that Paliki, the western peninsula of...

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