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  1. Free speech, not just for academe 3

    The restrictions on free speech supported by Keith Flett are profoundly dangerous precisely because words such as "racist" and "homophobic" have no objective definition and undermine the objective...

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  2. Free speech, not just for academe 4

    There is still considerable confusion over the subject of academic freedom. To suggest that it "exists (only) within the constraints of our society" is false, because we live not in a medieval but in...

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  3. Free speech, not just for academe 5

    A spokeswoman for the Equality Challenge Unit is quoted as saying that academic freedom must be balancedJagainst the need to "promote responsible debate". And who, pray, is to decide what is and is...

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  4. Free speech, not just for academe 6

    Until a definition of academic freedom can be agreed and it is disentangled from freedom of speech and then protected by statute, confusion regarding its scope will remain. A request for a statement...

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  5. Linguistic challenge

    Jan Bamford is right to underline the need for a greater level of English-language support for international students ("UK told to raise language bar for foreign students", December 22/29). But she...

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  6. Pay misconceptions 1

    The story "Reform sparks pay scramble" (January 5) repeats yet again the falsehood that the 2004 pay framework agreement covers "all university staff - from porters to professors". The framework...

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  7. Pay misconceptions 2

    I am not an economist, so perhaps that is why I am perplexed at the ubiquity of the phrase "market forces" in higher education, invariably used to justify the inflated salaries of senior academic...

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  8. Bed bugbears?

    Recognition that the tendency of teenagers to go to bed and get up later has a biological basis (Features, January 5) comes as no surprise to those of us with teenage children. And if by the age of...

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  9. A date with the undead

    The vampire has come a long way from its Gothic literary origins, and Clive Bloom thinks the revival is enough to send Dracula creeping back to the crypt I'm in this New York deli sharing a latte...

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  10. All things Bright may not be quite so beautiful

    The God-free now have their own 'pride' movement. But, says Stephen Phillips, some of its prominent members have cast a shadow over its progress These are busy times for the Brights, the "atheist...

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  11. Does this old bag remind you of anyone?

    As the Sir Humphreys meet to recall the Thatcher era, Harriet Swain looks at the task facing official historians in sifting through memories and miles of archives As distinguished former and serving...

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  13. Just you, me and the PhD

    Student-supervisor relationships are intense and don't always run smoothly, say Sarah Li and Clive Seale There is a host of advice manuals on "How to get a PhD". And while many may be written by...

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