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  1. Size does not matter for the arts 2

    The white paper argues against the link between teaching and research while acknowledging that "scholarly activity" is necessary to sustain quality. Its "heavy" science model favours large centres...

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  2. Underperform on pay 1

    It is galling that lecturers' union Natfhe's efforts to work in partnership with employers to deliver modernised pay structures, and on the access agenda so lauded by this government, has led to a...

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  3. Underperform on pay 2

    The white paper provides much entertainment in spotting the "old chestnuts". For example, the 1968 Prices and Incomes Board report proposed to reward the best teachers, to earmark a percentage of the...

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  4. Underperform on pay 3

    The belief that the £330 million of funding council money for recruiting and retaining staff ("Pay boost will come at a price", THES, January 24) has been "earmarked for staff pay" is wide of the...

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  5. Flaws in fees policy 1

    The argument for top-up fees ("Fees can be up to £3,000 - with Whitehall strings," THES , January 24) is based on flawed logic and a failure to learn from Australia, which introduced a similar higher...

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  6. Flaws in fees policy 2

    A £20,000 debt is surely a disincentive to students from deprived backgrounds to study purely academic subjects, such as philosophy, and an incentive to follow vocational degrees, such as law. If we...

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  7. Flaws in fees policy 3

    It is easy to force social compliance when most have gone to university and end up owing the government money? The consequence of undergraduate debt will be plummeting graduate recruitment. Result:...

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  8. Take a look at taboo

    It is ironic, if not irresponsible, to suggest we reassess our moral attitude to incest when we fear the family is under threat ("Heart steers head onto right track", THES , January 24). Our distant...

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  9. New end to old story?

    Bias against women in higher education is not new ("Bias cheats women out of places", THES , January 17). In the early 1970s, the Open University discovered that, despite its first-come, first-served...

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  10. Green man's guidance

    Susan Palmer and Bryan Sentes ("Saviours of souls", THES , January 17) could have insisted on the common outlook of the Raelian cult and the scientific establishment. Most geneticists oppose...

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  11. Maggie is not of note

    Graham Farmelo (Books, THES , January 17) repeats the assertion that "Margaret Thatcher deserves credit for the role she surely played in securing Faraday's place on the English £20 note". It is not...

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  12. Laurie Taylor Column

    The new white paper on higher education announces that an "access regulator" with power to hand out fines will be appointed - THES , January 24. From: The office of the access regulator To: The vice-...

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  14. Leader: By 2006, few will want to be in cut-price club

    Vice-chancellors are understandably reluctant to commit themselves on the pricing of courses four years hence, despite the prompting of newspapers, including The THES . Why should they? Any...

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