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  1. Antidote for toxic cuts 1

    If UK universities now operate in a global market for staff and students, then a concern with excellence would seem to make it sensible to revisit the issue of tenure, which was abolished in 1988.It...

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  2. Antidote for toxic cuts 2

    Your report on the proposed redundancies in history at the University of Sussex omits one significant wrinkle ("Despite colleagues' support, cuts cause deep traumas", 21 January). The cuts have been...

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  3. Doth protest too much

    Much as one regrets Lancaster University's loss ("Researchers fear that early end to collection loan will hit REF standing", 28 January), Robert Appelbaum is too pessimistic when he suggests that...

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  4. Sign of desperation

    The notion of "recycled news" reached previously unheard-of temporal dimensions with your disappointingly sensationalist report on a therapist's unconventional work nearly three decades ago ("Stark...

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  5. Killing 'jokes'

    It is hardly surprising that the University of Nottingham's complaints procedures have absolved one professor of offending a gay colleague in an email containing a flaccid joke about "faggots" ("...

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  6. Prophetic outlook

    PricewaterhouseCoopers reports on university finances in Weathering the storm: Coping with the financial challenge in the higher education sector ("As the good times rolled, a quarter of universities...

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  7. Free at lunch

    I would agree with Ron Johnston that lunches with colleagues, networking at conferences and discussion and collaboration with other researchers can help provoke eureka moments ("Small places matter...

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  8. Symbols crashing

    As the online version of the article about Ken Pounds ("Eternal explorer", 28 January) gave his name as Ken£ for most of Thursday, I look forward to future articles about the poet Robert `s, the...

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  9. Grit and miss

    I was a pale and anxious steward at Millwall Football Club in the glory days of the late 1980s, and I'm sure there were a couple of extra syllables in their supporters' defiant chant ("The news...

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  10. University of Sheffield - Them bones find a home

    A collection of human skeletal remains is to get a new home at the University of Sheffield, thanks to £25,000 worth of donations from an alumni campaign. The new "Juvenile Developmental Osteology...

  11. UHI Millennium Institute - Gaelic funding sparks row

    The prospective University of the Highlands and Islands has become embroiled in a row over funding for its Gaelic language courses. Bord na Gaidhlig, the agency that allocates cash to support Gaelic...

  12. Lancaster University - Forging links with Pakistan

    A dual degree is to be launched in Pakistan following a new partnership between Lancaster University and Comsats Institute of Information Technology. It is the first such deal to be struck between a...

  13. School of Communication Arts - 'Mad Men' for a new era

    A school to train the next generation of advertising professionals is to be accredited by the University of the Arts London. The School of Communication Arts will be run by industry experts and will...

  15. Sheffield Hallam University - Automatic pilots

    A new centre for robotics has been launched at Sheffield Hallam University. The Centre for Automation and Robotics Research, the only one of its kind in the region, aims to be a "hotbed" of robotics...