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  1. Pensions: preempt the Treasury

    Managers of the Univer-sities Superannuation Scheme were right to err on the side of caution in estimating a decade or two ago how well investments would fare to pay staff pensions ("Richer than you...

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  2. Pensions: preempt the Treasury

    Andrew Oswald failed to mention in his article the USS's stinginess in its cost-of-living increases. It is enhancing pensions this year by 2.1 per cent, less than academics' pay settlement is likely...

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  3. Pensions: preempt the Treasury

    I find Oswald's suggestion that the value of USS pensions be increased an attractive one. As actuaries are by nature conservative, it would be useful to have an actuary's view on the USS's financial...

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  4. Pensions: preempt the Treasury

    The USS is bloated with money for two reasons: the unanticipated decline in academic pay has caused a corresponding fall in actuarial liability for the USS, and because whenever a USS member moves to...

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  5. Blessing in disguise

    You report an employment tribunal ruling that it constitutes sexual discrimination to make participation in the research assessment exercise a condition of employment because fewer women than men...

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  6. Equality knocks

    I am not surprised that Derby was ranked second in the female/ethnic minorities league table ("Stopped by the unsound barrier", THES, April 14). When I arrived here in 1997, I was struck not only by...

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  7. Equality knocks

    Professorial figures reflect appointment decisions made ten or even 20 years ago. In my subject area, modern languages, there has been increasing parity of appointment of male and female professors...

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  8. Bad vibes on visas

    Your editorial "UK must offer a better experience to foreign students" (THES, April 7) places the fault squarely on universities with one exception, which you choose to call "the visa muddle". On a...

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  9. Penalised part-timer

    It is an irony that you published a letter ("Trojan horse needed", THES, April 7) on the day that the Part-time Employees (prevention of less favourable treatment) Regulations 2000 came into force....

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  10. Free to talk or not

    Tom Wakeford ("Concern for science", THES, March 24) says that the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council bans scientists it funds from "becoming involved in political controversy on...

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  11. New tests, old results

    IQ tests will not help get more working-class kids into university, argues Ken Richardson. Scholastic aptitude tests, used for more than 80 years in the United States to assess the ability of high-...

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  12. Readers' reactions

    Gail Kinman reported that 70 per cent of lecturers found their jobs stressful I can genuinely say that there are simply not enough hours in the day to do what I want to do. Trying to meet the demands...

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  13. Readers' reactions

    Two weeks ago, Dale Spender said institutions should forge global partnerships to deliver e-courses The need for universities to forge global partnerships with private business is essential in...

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  14. Irish find room for racism

    Racism is a significant problem in Northern Ireland, the most comprehensive independent study of local attitudes to race has discovered, writes Olga Wojtas. Researchers Paul Connolly and Michaela...

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  15. World's tiniest vacuum

    Now there really is nowhere for dirt to hide. Scientists have created the world's smallest cleaning tool to remove the slightest imperfection on a microchip or tidy up flaws in DNA structures, writes...

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