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  2. Laurie Taylor Column

    From: The Office of the President (formerly Vice-Chancellor) To: All members of academic staff Subject: Industrial action As you will no doubt recall, I wrote last week to point out that this...

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  3. Leader: The hours of reckoning await

    The issues behind the proposed cuts at Sussex University, as they affect the sciences, are explored elsewhere in this edition. The plans have revived concerns about national provision of chemistry in...

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  4. Leader: A drop in the bucket

    Today's announcement of grants totalling £7.5 million to help universities and colleges develop their fundraising activities is welcome as far as it goes... but that is not very far. The scheme may...

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  5. To gag, sack or oppose race tutor 1

    As a black member of academic staff I believe that Frank Ellis should not lose his job but someone at Leeds University should seek to improve the quality of the research he engages in ('"I won't be...

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  6. To gag, sack or oppose race tutor 2

    It is a week since the lecturer Frank Ellis was thrust into notoriety for expounding his views that black people are genetically less intelligent than their white counterparts. There has been, to my...

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  7. To gag, sack or oppose race tutor 3

    The most effective way to repudiate Frank Ellis's crudely positivistic claims about intelligence and race is relentlessly to expose their Eurocentrically ideological nature. In adopting any...

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  8. Rises and falls 1

    In response to your story "25% wage hike for v-cs" (March 10), the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association argues that this increase is below average for chief executives in the public and...

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  9. Rises and falls 2

    As one of the 23 staff who won an unfair dismissal case against the management of London Metropolitan University ("London Met staff win contract fight", March 10), I was staggered to read your report...

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  10. Rises and falls 3

    Philip Parkin shows considerable naivety if he believes that constant negotiation that is not backed by the threat of strikes will achieve better pay and conditions (Letters, March 10). The employers...

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  11. Rises and falls 4

    Philip Cowley appears to have undergone a conversion to 19th-century industrial relations over the past two years (March 10). In 2004, he tells us, he took action short of a strike and considers it...

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  12. No laughing matter

    So, Neil Mercer considers my comments on the doubtful merits of "research-based" teaching methods and the role of academics in schools of education to be "laughable" (Letters, March 3). He asserts...

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  13. Two-stage approach

    If the research councils want a "Drive for efficiency in review process" (March 10), why don't they adopt the two-stage application process that many other research funders use? A preliminary...

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  14. Unhelpful to dying field

    Non-gerontologists should be in no doubt that Aubrey de Grey is long on hyperbole and short on science ("Do you want to live to be 800?", March 10). His academic position at Cambridge is (or was)...

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  15. Wrong title

    In the feature on the killing of Iraqi intellectuals ("Tortured, shot, ambushed, victims are found dumped outside morgues...", March 10), I was identified as the head of "Iraq's University Professors...

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