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  1. AUT early birds were out in force 1

    I must protest at your coverage of last week's joint action by the Association of University Teachers and the National Union of Students over pay and variable top-up fees respectively ("I think they'...

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  2. AUT early birds were out in force 2

    For those of us who have long admired your Whistleblower reports on the "lower depths" of academia, the account of AUT picketing betrayed a lack of awareness of how universities function. The Billy...

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  3. Accountability a must

    Sir Richard Doll has always been a heroic figure, prepared to lead from the front even when the going is tough ("Top cancer expert, 91: 'I'll go to jail for science'", February ). Such courage and...

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  4. A wake-up call?

    Russell Foster ("The clock ticks as life follows its own rhythms", February ) raises important questions. If we are awake 22 hours out of 24, will we live proportionately shorter lives? Might we die...

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  5. An exclusive market

    PA Consulting Group's survey of vice-chancellors shows that top-up fees will neither address universities' funding shortfall nor stop some vice-chancellors from focusing on balance sheets at the...

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  6. Apel at core of access 1

    Learning from experience may earn students academic credit but no institution awards credit for experience alone ("Credits for prior learning face curb", February ). The word "curb" suggests...

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  7. Apel at core of access 2

    Some may mock a parody of accreditation of Apel, I do not. The jocular comments attributed to me require me to spell out the "joke". My 2000 report confirmed that institutional procedures are...

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  8. More miss than hit

    "Scientists would need at least six years' notice to prevent a small asteroid from smashing into the Earth using existing technology" (News, February ). Not to worry, asteroids don't have existing...

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  9. Gender not the issue

    It is June Purvis (Letters, February ) who misses the point. There may be incipient sexism associated with some Royal Society members' response to the candidature of women ("RS seeks to calm row over...

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  10. A caring profession

    I wish we could add a fourth category for promotion - student care - to the triumvirate of teaching, research and administration ("Two out of three is just not enough", February ). In most...

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  11. For nearer, for farther

    The separation between W. Tobin in New Zealand and his wife in France is not the farthest (Letters, February ). For the first 18 months of marriage, I visited my wife at Otago University, New Zealand...

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  12. FYI, Txt gr8 SuCes

    Fiona Kisby may find the University of Hertfordshire's campaign indicative of the intellectual standards of our time, (Letters, February ) but we commend young people for their willingness to embrace...

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  13. Bona fide professor

    Gill Evans says that Alison Richard does not have a professorship (The Diary, February ). For the record, the vice-chancellor of Cambridge is professor emeritus of the human environment and professor...

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  14. Food for thought

    Holly Smith's metaphor comparing students to babies says more of her attitude to students than of their abilities to learn ("Play with your food so long as you eat it", February ). Students, unlike...

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  15. A grand job

    The feature on alumni giving ("Calling the old boys' network, February ) highlighted graduate Paul Ramsay, who "initially pledged $1,000 (£535,000) [sic], but after numerous telephone conversations...

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