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  1. Laurie Taylor Column

    "A new body, the UK Research Integrity Office, will accept evidence of research malpractice" - The Times Higher, May 11. Dear Research Integrity Office I'd like to complain about my former colleague...

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  2. Felipe Fernàndez-Armesto

    "See America." When I got a job in Massachusetts I thought I would be able to take the ad's advice. But it was a year before I got very far out of Boston. At last, when I began a 30-day, 20-lecture...

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  3. Don't sex up gender pay gap 1

    With most universities having just published their gender equality schemes, evidence to suggest that female staff are paid less than males was bound to be headline news ("Pay bias persists as change...

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  4. Don't sex up gender pay gap 2

    The survey of the so-called "gender pay gap" is either dishonest or incompetent, as it fails to control for any of the relevant confounding variables. Carefully controlled studies typically show that...

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  5. Don't sex up gender pay gap 3

    The gender income differences could be due as much to a failure to recruit junior male academics as to female academics not achieving pay parity. In certain disciplines so few men are being recruited...

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  6. United we stand 1

    Robert Lockie is quite mistaken about the University and College Union and Unite Against Fascism. UCU would agree that the British National Party is a "repulsive fascist group" (Letters, May 11). We...

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  7. United we stand 2

    Robert Lockie rails against the Socialist Workers Party in the University and College Union. He should ask himself why those who know us vote for us. In my case, I got the second-highest vote in the...

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  8. Devil in the details

    I agree in part with Steve Reicher's criticisms of Philip Zimbardo's famous experiment ("The devil inside us all", Features, May 11). However, his legitimate concern that acceptance of social...

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  9. Star turn

    For a feminist, it is serendipitous when an abject sexist proves himself an ignoramus as well. The recent quote by Sir Patrick Moore attributing the demise of tasteful television to the increase in...

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  10. System failure

    The anonymous academic who bemoaned the bureaucracy that is "killing" his/her career (Opinion, May 11) is just the latest voice in the growing cacophony of challenge to the assessment- and...

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  11. Double negative

    Laurie Taylor's idea of a European Journal of Negative Research Findings (Laurie Taylor, May 11) is not original. An article by David Lehrer et al. in European Political Science proposed a journal to...

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  12. Between the lines

    Your discussion of the similarities between the publications of Ben Wilson and Vic Gatrell ("Author sorry for uncredited debt", May 11) implies that Wilson has breached Gatrell's "intellectual...

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  13. Forget a common past, find a common future

    Building a national identity on history can be dangerous, warns Stefan Berger, who leads a European project studying the subject. Below, his colleagues Uffe /stergard and Attila Pok examine...

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  14. Across campuses and nations - only connect

    Historian and philosopher Theodore Zeldin suggests a few new ways to get people talking This week, ministers from across Europe are meeting to discuss progress on attempts to create a common European...

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  15. We must all examine our recent histories

    Building a national identity on history can be dangerous, warns Stefan Berger, who leads a European project studying the subject. Below, his colleagues Uffe Ostergard and Attila Pok examine...

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