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  3. In brief 1

    The choice of a drag-queen cover ( THES , May 24) as a precursor to a comment in Ian Wilmut's book review about a hypothetical, eugenic "cure" for homosexuality is tabloidesque. Drag queens are a...

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  4. In brief 2

    What a narrow, unforgiving view of humanity James Tooley has if people must depress personal attributes to fit a definition of their ascribed gender role ( THES , May 17, 24, 31). The way forward is...

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  5. In brief 3

    The Race Relations (Amendment) Act is the best chance we've ever had to push through the culture change needed to make equal opportunities a reality in the sector (News, THES , May 31). Bill Gulam is...

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  6. Boycott betrayal 1

    Most staff probably know little of the "academic boycott" organised against Israeli universities ("Historian fears for academic freedom in Israel", THES , May 17). But on a recent visit to Israel,...

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  7. Boycott betrayal 2

    Is it Robert Lockie's view that the oppression of the Palestinian people is not "a matter of real importance" or that an academic union should not concern itself with "complex moral" matters (Letters...

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  8. Dispute disputed

    You misrepresented Natfhe-Westminster relations ("Local union row threatens national talks", THES , May 24). The now-resolved dispute referred to was local and had no bearing on national negotiations...

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  9. 'Failing'? Not us, insists Abertay 1

    It is nonsense to suggest that Abertay University is "failing", is on a Quality Assurance Agency "critical list" and the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is poised to "intervene" ("Abertay...

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  10. 'Failing'? Not us, insists Abertay 2

    I made a conscious decision to leave an older university to set up a research centre at the University of Abertay. I have been impressed by the QAA process and by the innovative staff with whom I...

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  11. 'Failing'? Not us, insists Abertay 3

    If I am to believe your article, I work for a "failing" university that is on a "critical list". All because of some very specific adverse comments in a QAA review. Recent reviews of engineering and...

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  12. Wages for sages 1

    I totally agree with Alan Ryan ("Why I...", THES , May 31). No rational person would become an academic in Britain given the remuneration. I recently saw advertised a postdoctoral position based in...

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  13. Wages for sages 2

    Alan Ryan sensibly suggests that "British academic life has become unviable". On other pages, the School of Oriental and African Studies advertises for a director of a project on endangered languages...

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  14. Wages for sages 3

    As an admirer of your former editor, I enjoyed the front-page suggestion that she and I might non-accidentally have left our jobs simultaneously ("Ryan quits", THES , May 31). Still, it's funny to...

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  15. Collegiate claims

    As a humble FE lecturer I hesitate to take issue with Lord Briggs's elegant review of volume VII of The History of the University Oxford (Books, THES , May 31). There may, however, be one minor...

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