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  1. Climb the income ladder but avoid those snakes

    In today's business climate, it is crucial for universities to implement an ethical framework, says Steven Schwartz For better or worse, today's higher education institutions are deeply immersed in...

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  2. Leader: Unity is strength - and credibility

    Most headlines about this week's council meeting of the Association of University Teachers have concerned the latest call for a boycott of Israeli universities - a proposal debated (and defeated) in...

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  3. Leader: Ask us about your rights

    This week, The Times Higher launches an advice column in its Working Knowledge section. It will answer readers' questions on employment rights, from concerns about fixed-term contracts to maternity...

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  4. Plausible reasons to be fearful 1

    Putting university candidates through multiple-choice tests ("Exam boards unveil SAT rival", April 15) to determine their "potential" marks a new phase in the degradation of education in this country...

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  5. Plausible reasons to be fearful 2

    I would like to take issue with your suggestion that the trial of the SAT that we funded found "too little variation between successful candidates at A level and in SATs" to justify its adoption (...

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  6. Plausible reasons to be fearful 3

    According to Ron McLone of Ucles, the only plausible interpretation of a picture of a cone, cylinder, sphere and a TV is that, "television has become fundamental". If you don't think that, then you...

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  7. Plausible reasons to be fearful 4

    I can do arithmetic. On a good day I can even do sentences. I am baffled by plausible reasoning. Would someone care to enlighten me? Your explanation should be sufficiently simple that even a humble...

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  8. Costly free speech 1

    I don't demur at Alison Wolf's defence of free speech but I'd add two things (Opinion, April 15). The first is that in a country that decided that Negroes were biologically intended for slavery, and...

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  9. Costly free speech 2

    I think Alison Wolf is being a little disingenuous if she expects us to believe that remarks made at a conference by the head of the world's richest and most influential university should be compared...

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  10. Not-long commitment

    The Leeds University advert for a head for a new Lifelong Learning Centre must surely be a belated April Fool's joke (Classified, April 8). It refers to "a strong commitment to lifelong learning and...

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  11. Not current currency

    It's encouraging to read that our long-abandoned unit of currency, the shilling, lives on in Israel ("Israel agrees on £38m of funds and new institution", April 15). It's even more encouraging to see...

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  12. Economists in the mix

    There is some truth in Nick Pearce's complaint about social scientists' reluctance to get involved in public policy-making ("Mix in with mandarins", April 15), but I'm not sure it applies to...

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  13. Written in the stars?

    Steve Cushion is spot-on when he points out that life is far from normal at London Metropolitan University, contrary to the assertion of vice-chancellor Brian Roper (Letters, April 15). What staff...

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  14. Case of costs

    It would be strange if, as Steven Schwartz claims (Letters, April 15), the Employment Appeal Tribunal had awarded costs to Brunel University in the Gurdish Webster case, since it found in favour of...

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  15. Universally strange

    Cosmologists face a daunting task in selecting one out of the possible 10¹ºº different flavours of string theory to apply to our universe (Joseph Silk's review of Parallel Worlds , Books, April 15)....

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