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  1. Cost of knowledge

    What goes around comes around. Almost 30 years ago, while seconded to the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, I devised an approach that resembles what became known as activity-based...

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  2. Fair play on fair pay? 1

    I normally have no objection to league tables where City University is in the top group, such as yours on average academic salaries (News, September 3). If this is true I am pleased - high performers...

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  3. Fair play on fair pay? 2

    Could the explanation for the gender inequalities in higher education pay and the wider human-resource malpractices described by Peter Nolan (Soapbox, September 3) possibly lie in the proposed pay...

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  4. Best-practice policy

    You say that I have criticised my university's policy on the admission of disabled students ("Middlesex disability policy is censured", August ). This is not true. I have never criticised our policy...

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  5. Bucks fuzzy

    Alan Smithers (Letters, September 3) has a fuzzy view of psychology. I too am a chartered psychologist who first earned his living as a research scientist. When I moved to research on human life, I...

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  6. Essential research

    Your note about the regulations for degree-awarding powers and university title perpetuates a confusion ("Title up for grabs", August ). You say that for the title of university "institutions will...

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  7. Complaints explained

    Gillian Evans has it wrong (Letters, September 3). The Higher Education Act creates one new system, the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education, to deal with all types of student...

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  8. Laurie Taylor column

    From : The Office of the Vice-Chancellor To : All Academic Staff I understand that questions have been raised about academic pay at Poppleton after an analysis by The Times Higher of average salaries...

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  9. Leader: Better late than never for debate

    Next week's annual meeting of Universities UK should have been a quiet affair -the calm before the storm, perhaps, with vice-chancellors celebrating good news from the spending review and keeping...

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  10. Leader: The limits of openness

    The British Association for the Advancement of Science did well to choose "responsibility and science" as the theme for its meeting this week in Exeter. In the modern world, people are surrounded by...

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  11. Today's news

    Tories: it's sink or swim for universities Universities will be left to sink or swim under Conservative Party plans for a market where students hold the purse strings and there is no financial safety...

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  12. Latest research news

    Genesis propbe to return its Sun cargo The Genesis probe, which left Earth in 2001 to gather particles blown off the Sun, returns its cargo on Wednesday. It will eject a capsule that will enter Earth...

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  13. Today's news

    Tories to scrap fees but increase loans The Conservative party will today promise to stick to its plans to abolish top-up fees but make students pay commercial rates of interest on their student...

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