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  1. Leader: The pitfalls of a non-stop society

    Academics seem to be adrift in a perfect storm that guarantees them sleepless nights. It is made up of ever more demanding students, more ruthless managers and technology that makes it hard to escape...

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  2. Leader: Saucy seminars

    There may be good reasons why academic conferences tend to be held in Umbria rather than Cumbria, or Athens rather than Aberdeen. For the driven souls who attend them for new scholarly insights,...

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  3. Faith is no foe of freethinking 1

    With reference to the suggestion that Church-founded universities and colleges represent a threat to free speech ("Ethos may be a foe to freedom", March 16), Dennis Hayes was unable to provide any "...

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  4. Faith is no foe of freethinking 2

    Whether or not an institution can guide its staff to maintain the collective ethos that it agrees, it is a very cheap shot to go from Canterbury Christ Church to Brigham Young University. BYU is...

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  5. Faith is no foe of freethinking 3

    There is no freedom of speech to discuss differing views on homosexuality and homosexual relations. The attack on Christian universities by The Times Higher and Dennis Hayes states that he is not...

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  6. Faith is no foe of freethinking 4

    I am sure readers will be bothered about the possibility of lack of freedom of speech at Chester and Canterbury Christ Church universities. It is an inquisition-type scenario whereby when it suits...

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  7. It's not a class issue

    The benefits of students providing information about their parents' backgrounds to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service when applying to higher education have been lost in accusations of...

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  8. Powerful images

    What are we to read into the images of two women that appeared in The Times Higher on March 16? Wendy Piatt, director-general of the Russell Group, is seated on a plush leather sofa. Sally Hunt,...

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  9. Permanent payoff 1

    Employment of researchers on open contracts is good news for universities, not just the researchers ("Research joy over rise in job security", March 9). At Birmingham University's School of Education...

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  10. Permanent payoff 2

    Your positive coverage of the reduction in the use of fixed-term contracts for research staff is very welcome. The research councils share the concerns, which have been voiced by many people, about...

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  11. Reshaping retirement

    Age Concern is quite right that the situation regarding mandatory retirement and age discrimination is unacceptable ("Age Concern takes OU to task", March 16). And it is absurd for any organisation...

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  12. The women's room 1

    Alison Wolf (Column, March 16) might like to know that King's College London made special provision for women students well into the last century. Women had their own Union Society and a separate...

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  13. The women's room 2

    The article "It's buy, buy to women. Now the girlies rule" (Features, March 9) contains one glaring error: Buffy the Vampire Slayer's boots were "stylish, yet affordable", not "stylishly unaffordable...

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  14. Democracy's flaw

    Jacques Rancière's arguments about genuine democracy highlight the issue of reconciling it with morality (Features, March 16), If everyone is to have equal political power, that may work if most...

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  15. Avoid the baby blues

    The panel members gave poor advice to the female principal investigator taking maternity leave while holding research grants (Working Knowledge, March 16). Though they advised correctly on the legal...

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