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  1. End this mass delusion

    Alan Ryan suggests Mr Denham revisit an example of quality and opportunity

    #Alan Ryan
    #Columnists
    #Opinion

  2. Leader: Sharing a banquet of knowledge

    There is no single recipe for successful cross-disciplinary centres. Lunch, however, seems to be an essential ingredient

    #Leader
    #Opinion

  3. Walter Spear, 1921-2008

    Walter Spear, whose work laid the foundations for a key part of today's multibillion-pound photovoltaic industry, died on 21 February, aged 87. His pioneering research in thin film, large area...

    #People

  4. Rights and wrongs of university pay points 1

    The danger of making pay comparisons over time ("How much are you worth?", 13 March) is highlighted in my own career.I was appointed to a foundation social science chair at the University of...

    #Letters

  5. Rights and wrongs of university pay points 2

    The correct salary figure for Geoff Whitty, director of the Institute of Education, should be £193,826. This excludes a refund of pension contributions made following an earlier overpayment of...

    #Letters

  6. Rights and wrongs of university pay points 3

    The figure provided by the Higher Education Statistics Agency for the pay of senior lecturers/lecturers does not reflect the true position at the University of Oxford because it does not include...

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  7. Rights and wrongs of university pay points 4

    Buried in your analysis of academic pay is the statement that the average salary for male professors is £66,282 while that for their female counterparts is £62,261. It is surely worth underlining...

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  8. Farmers and GM research

    Congratulations on a balanced article that highlights the Economic and Social Research Council's handling of a study of farmers' opinions on GM crops ("ESRC is criticised for 'biased' study", 13...

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  9. Formula for hollow mirth

    Philip Esler (Letters, 13 March) says that your report ("RCUK abandons impact formula", 6 March) and my opinion article ("What price knowledge?, 6 March), "exaggerate" the volte-face by Research...

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  10. The real face of campus life 1

    John Brinnamoor asks for realism in the university prospectus ("Not quite as advertised: college scarves and shameless flannel", 13 March). He would do well to remember that tale by Borges about the...

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  11. The real face of campus life 2

    It should be easy to find photogenic women on our campuses. A glance at media coverage every August - or even page 19 of the very issue of Times Higher Education in which John Brinnamoor writes -...

    #Letters

  12. An unsure vet

    The possibility of universities "capping" or otherwise restricting - "vetting", "pre-selecting" - grant applications is clearly now on the horizon ("REF may lead to restrictions on grant applications...

    #Letters

  13. Laws a-leaping

    So Alan Sokal (Book of the Week: Beyond the Hoax, 13 March) continues to invite anyone who believes the laws of physics are "mere social conventions" to try jumping from his 21st-floor apartment. If...

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  14. A pitch for top city 1

    Those of us who enjoy living and working in Norwich were astonished that the city was not near the top of your Halifax-Times Higher Education table for quality of life ("Where the grass is greener",...

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  15. A pitch for top city 2

    May I suggest a simplified quality-of-life table. It has only three criteria, against which I rank my own institution. The first is low property prices - on this Wolverhampton scores well. The second...

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