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  1. Leader: Fixed-term jobs, limited thinking

    For the first time in years, casualisation among research-only academics - the group that traditionally suffered most job insecurity - appears to be falling. It is a decline that will accelerate as...

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  2. Leader: To (almost) boldly go

    After decades of hibernation, the UK space programme is back. The key to its revival is the idea that spacecraft do not need to get bigger and pricier. Smaller and smarter technology can make...

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  3. Supporting acts 1

    The Scottish National Party's separatism is not "popular", as your columnist Maria Misra asserts (Features, March 2). At the last election, the SNP polled 17.7 per cent of the vote in Scotland, its...

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  4. Supporting acts 2

    Geoff Andrews's attempts to disparage the Open University deal with Tesco (Opinion, March 2) won't wash. Tesco customers are not "buying degrees" but gaining support for study in the same way other...

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  5. Reactionary view

    It strikes me as distinctly odd - one could say perverse even - of Hugh Willmott (Letters, February 23) to defend Foucault and Derrida as champions of "radical enlightenment" and to lump them in with...

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  6. Wrong urge

    Winston Fletcher, quoting from The Marketplace of Christianity in his review of the same (Books, February 23), says: "No urge... is more fundamental than the desire to explain existence." This is "...

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  7. To challenge a tutor is brave act

    Students who challenge senior academics have to be pretty brave. They are easy targets for intimidation, so I was shocked to find The Times Higher coming down so firmly on the side of the overdog in...

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  8. Time to cut lectures

    In all the recent talk regarding abuse of lectures and lecturers, the blame is put solely on misbehaving students. Yet the most satisfied students seem to be those at the Open University, who are not...

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  9. Oh for the light of Day! 1

    I suspect his students can hear the sneer in Gary Day's voice (Columnist, February 16) as loudly as we can, but I am sure it is more intimidating for them, whereas it is just tiresome for us. I can...

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  10. Oh for the light of Day! 2

    Contrary to the sentiments expressed by Jonathan Baldwin in his own little rant (Letters, February 23), I think Gary Day's students should think themselves very lucky indeed. A knowledgeable,...

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  11. We tackle plagiarism

    Paul Shanley described Sunny Bains's vigilante approach to plagiarism management as "a trifle naive" (Letters, February 23). However, the original article contains a few misconceptions (Opinion,...

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  12. Man-made science

    I hope complacency about the future of computer science is not the result of "Computing is the new 'Queen of the Sciences'" (Opinion, February 23). The late Roger Needham, managing director of...

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  13. PGCE spots no-hopers

    I missed Richard Austen-Baker's "parody of Chris Woodhead" (Letters, February 16), but I did read Chris Wilkins's reply (Letters, February 23). If Austen-Baker said that "at best, a PGCE can stop...

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  14. Warms your cockles

    Discussion of the recent pay increases awarded to themselves by vice-chancellors has failed to provide empirical data allowing comparison with the pay of persons having a comparable skills profile....

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  15. Research joy overrise in job security

    The shift to permanent contracts is accelerating, Melanie Newman and Anthea Lipsett report Universities are finally acting to reduce the number of casual contracts that have blighted the careers of...

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