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  1. Salary or pin money

    The real reason for the underpayment of academic women is that very few men believe that women have to earn their own living ("Sister of 21st century", THES, August 4). There is a general presumption...

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  2. National bargaining

    Chris Kaufman makes a great deal of sense ("Let the pay fight begin", Soapbox, THES, August 11). An objective of any responsible union must be to maintain as much national bargaining as possible. One...

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  3. National bargaining

    I have sympathy with college principals and support staff who point out that their pay is a long way off the fat-cat league ("Salaries too low to attract top dogs", THES, August 25). I would have...

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  4. Ethics and plagiarism

    Plagiarism and the concepts of intellectual property are complex issues that baffle some academics as well as students. Frank Furedi suggested it should be tackled with "an intellectual rather than a...

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  5. Workers are stakeholders too

    I was cheered and saddened by the article "Overhaul decreed for a wasteful system" (THES, August 25). It was cheering to read that the Higher Education Funding Council for England had at last...

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  6. Workers are stakeholders too

    Hefce has chosen the wrong moment to publish its policy statement on diversity in higher education ("Watchdog culture scares off risk-takers", THES, August 11). In the same week that Hefce told...

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  7. Choice by gender

    I am not sure which is the more disturbing, the photograph of the young Pakistani mother and her twins, where the boy is four times the size of his starving sister, or the framework of understanding...

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  8. Union role at Derby

    Geoffrey Alderman needs to get his facts straight before criticising the Quality Assurance Agency's investigation into franchising standards at the University of Derby (Letters, THES, August 25). Had...

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  9. Joking apart

    Christie Davies needs to conduct more background research about the Irish stereotype in British humour (Cutting Edge, THES, August 25). At school in Oxford in the early 1980s, I was again and again...

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  10. Newton revisited

    On reading that Cambridge University is launching an appeal for the purchase of the Macclesfield Newton Collection (Back page, THES, August 25), I was reminded of last year's sad revelation that...

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  11. Teesside on top-ups

    My comments on top-up fees ("Forgo public funds, v-c tells top-up elite", THES, August 25) relate to a joint statement issued by the University of Teesside's governors, academic board and the student...

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  12. Commercial funding carries a hefty price tag

    Industry provides essential funding but can present researchers with a conflict of interest, argues David Weatherall. For vice-chancellors of impoverished universities, the growing links between...

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  14. Beware geeks bearing modems

    Is education being devalued by high-tech training? Paul Taylor thinks it is. Education is floundering not so much in a sea of troubles, but under a flood of inappropriate technology. The rise of Bill...

  15. New laws to protect animal test dons

    Measures to protect scientists who experiment on animals are being considered by the government. Tougher sentencing for protesters who publish the personal details or target the homes of people...

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