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  1. Leader: Let's cherish our postdoc talents

    Anyone who has slogged through school and university to gain a PhD and get a job as a postdoctoral researcher has already demonstrated their dedication to academic life. But too many promising...

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  2. Leader: A win-win situation

    The decision of the Teachers' Pension Scheme to allow staff to work part time and claim a portion of their pension after the age of 55 is undoubtedly a good thing, though it seems that the change is...

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  3. Still logged on at the cutting edge 1

    I was somewhat surprised to see Neil McBride's article on computer science (Opinion, February 9). Yes, we do teach algorithms, some of which have "remained unchanged for 30 years". Would McBride like...

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  4. Still logged on at the cutting edge 2

    Although I agree with the underlying message of Neil McBride's article, is it not obvious that "computer science" is undergoing change? Is this unusual, given the dynamic and fast-evolving nature of...

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  5. Still logged on at the cutting edge 3

    In claiming that computer science is out of touch and should become more interdisciplinary, Neil McBride makes inaccurate generalisations. In fact, a significant proportion of research is in areas...

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  6. Still logged on at the cutting edge 4

    I do not share all of Neil McBride's views about computer science, but I welcome the discussion his article will precipitate. He is right to say that computing is now core to our society. It will...

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  7. Wrong about post-92s 1

    Alan Sked clearly enjoys lecturing at the London School of Economics; he spends a good chunk of his review of my book University Students Behaving Badly (February 9) telling us what a delightful...

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  8. Wrong about post-92s 2

    I've spent the majority of my adult life in Russell Group universities unaware of anyone, even in the darkest parts of "the tower", who was not committed to a higher education system that serves the...

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  9. A united future

    We should remember that 95 per cent of lecturers' union Natfhe and 80 per cent of Association of University Teachers members voted in favour of forming the University and College Union. Members want...

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  10. Got a bigger sample?

    Jim Foulds, chair of the Higher Education Safety Forum, takes The Times Higher to task for reporting a study of university stress based on a sample of "only" 1,000 respondents (Letters, February 9)....

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  11. It's not about the 'ist'

    With regard to June Purvis's letter (February 9), if she and her friends had not intervened to attack my article on interpretations of suffragette history even before it had been published, readers...

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  12. Research is the key

    Lee Harvey (Letters, February 9) is right to scorn williseemytutor.com. The site is absurd, crude and illiterate. But he makes a poor point in relation to postgraduates and their teaching....

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  13. Don't stop funding

    I'm appalled that the British Academy is planning to halt funding to the British School of Archaeology in Iraq for its work with Iraqi scholars and the rebuilding of the country's heritage ("Middle...

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  14. Taboo in the review

    In his choleric review of our book Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language (February 9), Roy Harris has a right to disagree with our wide definition of taboo - but we do at least define...

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  15. Get set for wardrobe assessing exercise

    Academics have suffered jokes about their fashion sense, or the lack of it, for a long time, but a TV makeover show is now taking the matter seriously, writes Anthea Lipsett. The BBC's What Not to...

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