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  3. Ceiling cracked not shattered

    As someone who has been researching (and living) equality issues in higher education, I was pleased to read the headline on the front page of last week's Times Higher - "Women crack glass ceiling" (...

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  4. Upfront mission

    Michael Merrifield appears to believe that because no one asked for his opinion about Beagle 2 , it sneaked into being through the back door (Letters, June 25). How wrong can he be? We were selected...

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  5. Animals will not cure

    Tipi Aziz is misleading patients that animal experiments will provide cures ("Back animal lab, top surgeon demands", June 25). The cardiovascular, respiratory and blood pressure systems of animals...

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  6. Insight into reality TV

    I understand David Wilson's resignation from Big Brother ("Resist lure of reality TV", June 25), but the assumption is that "academic insight" and "entertainment" are mutually exclusive. When...

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  7. Suckers not slackers

    Tim Birkhead's piece on the sucker spectrum was long overdue (Professional, June 11). Sarah Vickerstaff's letter (June 25) on junior staff taking up the slack when glitterati research transfers take...

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  8. Peerless process

    Contrary to your leader (June 25), the main problem with peer review is that it simply does not live up to its name: reviewer and reviewed are often not peers. On the whole, reviewers represent a...

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  9. Devil of a decision

    Bob Brecher replying to Alan Dershowitz's recommendation of torture in some legal cases (Letters, June 18) rightly stresses that this would be a slippery slope, but he fails to make the point that...

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  10. Knights out of order

    Your publication of the Honours list ("Queen's Birthday Honours", June 18) is much appreciated, but you have confused Knights Bachelor (which all those in your list received) with the KBE, which was...

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  11. When class counts

    David Rose (Letters, June 25) explains why we need to group people by social class using the example of how such classifications reveal social inequalities in health. But the introduction of the...

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  12. Give me guidance

    I feel Susan Bassnett perhaps overstated her point when she said "there is so much guidance around (for academics) about how to write (CVs)" (Professional, June 25). There is much advice for non-...

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  13. Reviewer reviewed

    The seasoned author/editor is never surprised to run across a less-than-flattering review. One shrugs it off and moves on. But Jacques Guy's review of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's...

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  14. Laurie Taylor column

    "New software package is capable of detecting plagiarism in student essays" - The Times Higher, June 18 Right. Candidate 163,912. Let's begin with the Media Theory paper and with Question One on...

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  15. Leader: Class action is no waiting game

    This week's research on class divisions in higher education provides further confirmation of the widening gap between rich and poor. It is a trend that is not confined to the UK, but it is no less...

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