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  1. Laurie Taylor Column

    From: Jamie Targett Subject: Maintaining standards As you will be aware, this university is committed to upholding the highest standards of academic excellence. However, in order that this commitment...

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  2. Leader: Bologna means continental shift in UK thinking

    British universities have long taken a simple view of the Bologna Agreement. For once, they think, continental Europe has realised the superiority of the British approach and has changed its ways to...

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  3. Students don't need 24/7 care 1

    Come on, lecturers, get a grip! This is maternalism gone mad ("Corporate push spawns 24/7 culture", March 23). Even the most besotted parents don't give 24/7 attention to their newborns. Since our...

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  4. Students don't need 24/7 care 2

    Academics complain that they are too available, responding to e-mails and telephone calls any time, any day ("24/7 demand leaves staff besieged", March 23). The true problem is not managers who...

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  5. Students don't need 24/7 care 3

    So Andrew Devlin is making his stand for independence by not answering his e-mails on a US trip. That'll show them who's boss, eh? As there are 2 million people in the world without access to fresh...

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  6. A marking mockery 1

    I am a third-year student at Bournemouth University who took Paul Buckland's "reconstruction" unit last year and am taking his "archaeology of the medieval church" unit this year ("Marks U-turn is '...

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  7. A marking mockery 2

    Bournemouth treads a slippery slope with its rhetoric when it undermines the marking authority of a professor such as Paul Buckland. Its dangerous message is that it is willing to rob its faculty of...

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  8. Boycotters' bias

    Two Israelis from Haifa University have been offered posts at British institutions. No whisper of boycott about the appointment of Rafi Almagor, a Zionist taking a politics post at Hull University....

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  9. Reward all research

    That 1* activity will not be funded after the 2008 research assessment exercise appears to be accepted as "fact" within much of the sector, probably owing to a perception that the Higher Education...

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  10. Political or correct?

    Roy Harris laments the acceptance of international varieties of English as the latest turn in political correctness (Opinion, March 30). However, what he describes as political correctness is...

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  11. A damaging affair

    Your sensationalist article "Conferences: places to present new ideas and old mistresses" (March 23) is unworthy of both The Times Higher and the vast majority of academics, for whom conferences are...

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  12. Slavery studies

    The claim that there are no academic studies on modern slavery because few academics are conducting such research is wrong ("Slave trade sees no let-up 200 years on", March 23). There has been...

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  13. Remove restrictions

    The assumption behind the argument of the vice-chancellor and the pro chancellor of Canterbury Christ Church University (Letters, March 23) is that the restrictions on academic freedom enshrined in...

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  14. Baffled Bedfordshire

    In response to the letter published in the March 16 issue of The Times Higher relating to the treatment of contract staff, the anonymous writer failed to mention that Bedfordshire University follows...

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  15. Law is not at fault

    Fixed-Term Employees Regulations were never intended to give contract research staff or sessional tutors job property rights ("Fears over job security", March 23). The parliamentary debates around...

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