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  6. Laurie Taylor Column

    "Clerical errors" at Sheffield University led to three of a department's staff being listed wrongly on its website as having a PhD - The Times Higher , March 9. From: the Vice-Chancellor and Chief...

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  7. Leader: Open plan or open warfare?

    In an era when the chief executive of British Airways goes into the office and looks for somewhere to sit - having no office or desk to call his own - academics have held out longer than most for the...

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  8. Leader: Freedom trumps faith

    Most of the controversy surrounding academic freedom has until now revolved around two issues: the right to offend and the right of academics to venture a controversial opinion on a topic outside...

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  9. Law will not help contract staff 1

    I and many other academics have followed the debate concerning fixed-term contracts with bemusement verging on hysteria ("Changes to work law begin to bite", March 9). The idea that universities have...

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  10. Law will not help contract staff 2

    Further to articles on universities moving to reduce the number of fixed-term research contracts, I am writing with hope that this approach will be followed by Luton University (now Bedfordshire...

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  11. Contrary to the report

    If there is an award for imaginative reporting and perverse interpretation, I should like to nominate The Times Higher for the article "Scotland slams QAA's methods" (March 9). It refers to a report...

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  12. Shameful stance

    "To challenge a tutor is brave act" ran the headline on your letters page last week (March 9). So is blowing yourself up, but the people are still self-righteous fanatics. The harassment of David...

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  13. Language alliance

    You report that Russell Group universities are increasingly becoming the major providers of single honours language programmes ("Study deserts blight UK", February 9), and this is a likely...

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  14. Skills snapshot

    There has been a great deal of discussion on the content and importance of research degree programmes. But since a "snapshot of work" has revealed that they are "particularly good in transferable...

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  15. But what of Wales?

    I turned eagerly to Vernon Bogdanor's review of The Nations of Britain by Christopher Bryant (Books, March 9), hoping at last to read something about Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in a...

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