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  1. Pay is not even in the small print 2

    A spokesperson for the Universities and Colleges Employers Association is quoted as saying that the fixed-term regulations should "iron out" the problems of research staff who are employed by...

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  2. Pay is not even in the small print 3

    The debate over short-term contracts for postdoctoral staff is hamstrung by the apparent failure of the Association of University Teachers to understand how research is funded. It is not in the gift...

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  3. Pay is not even in the small print 4

    Your article on the problems faced by contract researchers is the latest in a long history of worthy words on the subject. I look forward to the articles explaining the root causes and their possible...

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  4. Freedom for whom?

    Your article "What's a nice Trot doing in a place like this?" (January 28) accuses me of peddling conspiracy theories about Frank Furedi and other former members of the Revolutionary Communist Party...

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  5. No secrets at Bristol 1

    So Bristol's "admission secrets" have been "revealed" in documents "released" under the Freedom of Information Act (News, February 4). Strange, given that one could paper a football pitch with old...

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  6. No secrets at Bristol 2

    I am surprised that you did not refer to any of the research that provides a justification for Bristol's admission policies. Perhaps the best study to date was carried out by the Higher Education...

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  7. Degree of accuracy

    The reference to the Archbishop of Canterbury's degree-awarding powers being granted by the Pope is misleading ("Anointed to lead flock to study", February 4). The powers were transferred from the...

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  8. Profit of the protocol

    Bjorn Lomborg's argument that it is wasteful to spend money implementing the Kyoto Protocol is flawed because it inappropriately uses cost-benefit analysis ("$50 billion: how would you spend it?",...

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  9. A wider debate

    Rashid Khalidi accuses Campus Watch of trying to limit debate on Israel ("We have our eye on you... so watch out", January 28). Our criticism is that to listen to Khalidi you would think there are no...

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  10. Access issues 1

    Sam Freedman maintains that our finding that 3,000 suitably qualified state-school pupils don't attend our leading universities each year is a myth (Soapbox, February 4). We stand by our conclusions...

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  11. Access issues 2

    The Higher Education Funding Council for England report on participation is old, false, trivial and unethical (Access supplement, January 21). We already knew that participation varies with time,...

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  12. Save our service

    I am writing to express the deep concerns of the library profession in Wales about the proposal to abolish nine out of 13 library posts at the University of Wales, Bangor. If implemented, it will...

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  13. Small treasures up for grabs (no pirates, please)

    Top-up fees will complicate life for students and the charities that provide grants. Information on the new regime and on managing finances is vital, says Harriet Swain It used to be so simple for...

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  15. Inviting a kindred spirit into a room of one's own 1

    When a Derby lecturer and an Oxford don shadowed each other for the day, the chief revelation was how much common ground they shared Mary McNally, lecturer in culture and environment at Derby, makes...

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