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  5. Career conundrums 2

    I was sorry to read about Alice Smyth's plight, but some of the problem is reflected in her references to her contact with careers advisers "before or since university". Didn't she use her careers...

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  6. Biology in rude health

    Robin Dunbar has a narrow view of what biology is all about ("Biology in terminal condition", THES , June 14). Although it may be true that applications for straight biology are decreasing, the...

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  7. In brief 1

    In response to claims that the University of Leeds is "set to follow" other medical schools in making redundancies ("RAE plunges Bristol medics into crisis", THES , June 14), we would like to...

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  8. In brief 2

    The illustration of a naked woman set against fragments of a poem ("Make poetry a friend not a foe", THES , June 7) reflected the tired, cliched attitude to poetry that Ruth Padel was arguing against...

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  9. Damned statistics 1

    Your editorial ( THES , June 7) rightly calls for extra resources to achieve a 50 per cent participation rate, but your analysis of postcode premiums elsewhere demonstrates the inadequacy of this...

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  10. Damned statistics 2

    The finding that 28 per cent of UK university lecturers are over 50 is used to imply that we are an ageing profession ("No way to treat valuable citizens", THES , June 7). But if the standard...

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  11. Damned statistics 3

    Pay discrimination between ethnic-minority and other staff is impossible to verify if variables such as qualifications, age and experience are not taken into account ("St Andrews attacked on ethnic...

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  12. Ins and outs of race 1

    Ian McDonald identifies with Sussex University students and their claimed fear of being taught by someone who "deems them genetically inferior" ("No refuge for racists within the academy", THES ,...

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  13. Ins and outs of race 3

    Ian McDonald argues that Geoffrey Sampson's views represent British National Party-style attitudes. Odd then that Sampson says whites tend to have a lower IQ than Asians. McDonald thinks that anyone...

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  14. We want money without mafia 1

    Gordon Graham's diagnosis of what ails higher education - political indifference to education beyond its immediate economic and social engineering potential (Soapbox, THES , June 14) - is correct,...

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  15. We want money without mafia 2

    I was delighted that vice-chancellors plan to raise extra income for universities ("Universities unite in call to hike fees", THES , June 14). I began to muse on what that might mean: better...

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