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  1. Proud North Brum

    I am writing in response to the article by Phil Baty in The THES of November 26. The procedural question regarding the appointment of senior postholders at North Birmingham College was referred to...

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  2. Wrong side of the line

    While I congratulate the founder academicians elected to the Academy for Learned Societies for Social Sciences (THES, November 19), it is disappointing and surprising to note that only one is drawn...

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  3. Not Bloomsbury at all

    The epigraph "No, not Bloomsbury" does not come from Lucky Jim ("Blooming of a square set", THES, November 26). The relevant paragraph ends "... Wapping, Chelsea. No, not Chelsea." And the hero is...

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  4. Spelling it out

    You have solved our problem of professorships acquired in old and new universities (Whistleblowers, THES, November 19). Your "new" title of professer should apply only to those in "new" universities...

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  5. No ACCA deal

    You claimed that Middlesex University "set up a deal to offer degrees in partnership with ... the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants" (Whistleblowers, THES, October 22). I would like to...

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  6. Short term and shortchanged

    Every time Christopher Frayling opens his mouth I am gobsmacked at the complacency of the Royal College of Art (Soapbox, THES, November 26). As an artist and educationist, I have been subjected to...

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  7. Short term and shortchanged

    Christopher Frayling's article paints a rather negative view of pending legislation on fixed-term contracts. If the staff he employs wish to undertake their duties on a fixed-term basis by mutual...

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  8. Short term and shortchanged

    While understanding Christopher Frayling's desire to have "practitioner academics", there are alternative contractual arrangements to those on which he insists for his staff. Why not, as in most of...

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  9. The lost march

    We are writing on behalf of all students from the University of Plymouth who took part in the March for Education in London on November 25. As it is more than 150 miles to London, we had to leave...

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  10. Cutting edge

    Evolvable hardware produced by Darwinian ideas of circuit formation is making the building of brains superior to ours a reality. One of the great economic driving forces of our age is derived from "...

  11. On the shoulders of giantesses?

    Women in science account for just three out of 170 living Nobel prizewinners and are severely underrepresented at every level. Martin Ince reports on an EC initiative to redress the balance. There...

  12. Progress in fuel cell technology

    The power beneath the bonnet of the green, efficient car of the future will most likely be the fuel cell. Yet the technology needed to convert chemical energy directly into electrical energy has so...

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  13. Elliptic curve conjecture is solved

    Mathematicians have solved the 40-year-old problem that Andrew Wiles used to help him tackle Fermat's Last Theorem. The Taniyama-Shimura conjecture had been partially proved by Wiles while he homed...

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  14. New window on a wonder of the universe

    In the fleeting glory of their detonation, gamma-ray bursts release more energy than any explosion since the Big Bang and briefly illuminate the most distant corners of the universe. Now astronomers...

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  15. Don's diary

    Saturday It is the first weekend in a while that I have properly concentrated on my university work. The extra academic work this year has meant I have had to give up my part-time job in a Christmas...

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