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  1. Laurie Taylor column

    "New dress code for academics will help them achieve a 'more professional air'" - The Times Higher, June 3 Now, Lapping, I believe you know the other members of the Dress Code Committee. Yes indeed....

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  2. Leader: Refining our global yardstick

    Universities in the UK - even the most internationally minded - cannot serve the diverse needs of every country. But when a state that places such a high premium on education and science as Singapore...

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  3. Leader: The missing recruits

    Universities have long argued that widening participation in higher education is primarily a challenge for state schools and colleges. The independent schools' survey reported in our Trends report...

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  4. Dressed to impress or distress? 1

    The North East Surrey College of Technology's prohibition of staff wearing jeans or baring their midriffs because this promotes a scruffy image ("Dress code given cold shoulder by union", June 3) has...

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  5. Dressed to impress or distress? 2

    The ideology of a dress code is fine, as long as the realities of such a code are considered during implementation. Any code must fit with the image of the organisation and also reflect the role...

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  6. Dressed to impress or distress? 3

    Loraine Monk is right to resist a prescriptive dress code, but her comment that students would have less confidence in her if she wore a suit because she teaches media is a non sequitur. If...

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  7. Dressed to impress or distress? 4

    Dress codes for lecturers are not new. A few years ago, I was part of a group being briefed prior to a stint of teaching in prison. As the oldest and least attractive member, I was taken aback when...

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  8. Dressed to impress or distress? 5

    Organisations that start worrying about dress codes have lost the plot. The short-lived UK eUniversity used to worry about staff wearing sandals. As an employee, I was horrified that more attention...

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  9. Age-old questions 1

    Your story "Job boom looms as older staff bow out" (May ) raises interesting issues but makes one major assumption that requires comment. It is not necessarily the case that "new universities will be...

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  10. Age-old questions 2

    The imminent retirement of large numbers of staff from UK universities may well be a blessing for aspiring academics, but it comes with a sting in its tail. These retiring staff will collectively...

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  11. Free speech at risk

    It is one thing for senior managers at London Metropolitan University to comment on how the student union runs its affairs, but quite another for them to remove material they dislike from the student...

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  12. Spy rule No 1: no cravat

    Your article on American spies ("CIA outrages UK academics by planting spies in the classroom", June 3) reminded me of a similar occurrence when I was at Cambridge University in the mid-1960s. An...

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  13. A People person

    So Rob Read, Sussex University's director of communications, thinks "none of our academics or students' parents reads The People " ("Think beyond the cosmetic but don't make any boobs", June 3). Had...

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  14. Oxford's global rank

    Your article on the consultation responses to Oxford University's academic strategy "Unique Oxford 'at risk"' (June 3) incorrectly claims that the international benchmarking exercise undertaken by...

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  15. Back to nature - again

    Since my attitude to organic farming is rather simplistic (I support it by instinct but have no detailed knowledge) I was interested to read the article by Louise Fresco and colleagues to see what...

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