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  1. Today's news

    Ailing Middlesex makes 175 staff redundant Middlesex University is making 175 voluntary redundancies - including 33 academic staff - in a bid to save £10 million in operating expenses, the university...

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  2. Laurie Taylor Column

    University of Poppleton Once again, it's time for some of the university's movers and shakers to select their Books of the Year. The Vice-Chancellor There's not been much time for reading (or indeed...

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  3. Leader: Not the end, but the chance for a new beginning

    Imperial College's decision to leave the University of London has led some observers to speculate yet again that the federal university has had its day. Not only might other colleges follow Imperial'...

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  4. Little wellbeing in being a temp 1

    So David Guest believes that, in terms of "wellbeing", those who are on temporary contracts are certainly not "worse off" than those on permanent contracts ("End the 'jobs for life' culture",...

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  5. Little wellbeing in being a temp 2

    Ending jobs for life in academia would be a disaster as we would lose competitiveness: industry-style contracts would not lead to better research. As long as the US has jobs for life, the UK would be...

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  6. Little wellbeing in being a temp 3

    Jobs for life, or decent, stable, working rights and conditions? The paper by Louise Ackers and Liz Oliver urges moving academics on to insecure, compulsory casualised contracts. Oliver and Ackers...

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  7. Still evolving science 1

    The staggeringly arrogantJattack on intelligent design (ID) by a cabal of zoologists suggests that, like most biologists, few of them have read any modern versions of ID (Opinion, December 9). Design...

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  8. Still evolving science 2

    I share your respondents' distaste for intelligent design and their dismay that it should be taught in schools. But one of your contributors stated that "evolution has stood the test of time". If he...

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  9. Still evolving science 3

    I'm not a creationist (presumably by accident rather than by design) but I think I recognise an appeal to a community's sacred scripture when I hear it. "As Karl Popper tells us, if you can't prove...

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  10. Still evolving science 4

    In his review of Michael Ruse's The Evolution-Creation Struggle , Harry Collins makes a number of incisive points (Books, December 9). But he takes Richard Dawkins to task for his excessive "...

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  11. Right time for action

    Your leader claims that unions are "predating" negotiations with "belligerent noises" when there is an opportunity for a "fresh start" with the advent of the University and College Union ("Unity...

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  12. Wheely good idea

    Evidently Gary Day has much to learn about cycling (Columnist, December 9). He should discard the drooping coat that gets entangled in his bicycle and invest in some cycling attire that is fit for...

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  13. More farce then fair

    Is University College London really planning to leave half of its staff out of the next research assessment exercise ("UCL memo 'expects' 3*s", December 9)? In the 2001 RAE roughly half the research...

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  14. Unhealthy finances

    As someone who worked in the National Health Service for 23 years before joining the higher education sector, I disagree with Pat Rattigan's Malthusian view that "the nation's health has deteriorated...

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  15. Exam prep: discuss

    Thanks to Harriet Swain (Working Knowledge, December 2), I now know how to go about preparing exam papers. Read article on exam preparation: five minutes. Reread last year's exam to refresh memory:...

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