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  1. V-cs' salary divide 2

    Barry Ife's letter is extraordinary (March 4). He complains that in your report on vice-chancellors' salaries - in which you showed that they had doubled over the past ten years - you spelt his name...

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  2. V-cs' salary divide 3

    You claim that my salary is £113,000. This is incorrect. The right sum is £97,000. Michael Alder Writtle College

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  3. Back PhDs everywhere

    The Higher Education Funding Council for England is phasing out funding for PhD students in departments with units of assessment ranked 3a ("Funding fillip for further study", March 4). Now it can...

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  4. Of butts and beeps

    So Alastair Fowler's castigating Stephen Greenblatt is like Thomas Edison's ticking off an electrician ("Heavyweights square up in bout of literary 'butt kicking'", March 4). Greenblatt is the...

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  5. Preventive strength

    Munjed Farid Al Qutob's salute to Holocaust Day (Letters, February 11) is naive and shows an unawareness of modern history. Atrocities such as those in Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda disprove his...

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  6. Get out or shut up

    In 1989-94 I served as chair of the University of London's Academic Council. As I was elected on a "federalist" ticket, I vigorously defended the university's federal basis. Then, as now, the major...

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  7. Break an egg, minister

    Ruth Kelly thinks reform must build on what you have already (News, March 4). Has she not heard of double-loop change, which requires not to do things better, but to do better things - or that you...

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  8. File under 'i' for idiotic

    I read with horror of the cuts facing subject librarians at the University of Wales, Bangor ("Librarians under threat", February 11). It never fails to amaze me how otherwise intelligent individuals...

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  9. Poor records on race and on pay 1

    It is a disgrace that ethnic minorities, who are among the most avid consumers of higher education, are also among its least well served ("The doors to the mainstream are shut to pioneers" and "Why...

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  10. Poor records on race and on pay 2

    I teach African and Islamic archaeology, and I find Mark Christian's tone worryingly racist and segregationist. If his views had been espoused by a white academic, action would rightly be taken. Some...

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  11. Poor records on race and on pay 3

    Lena Dominelli observes that there are no black professors of social work. It is not much better in social policy, the discipline where one might have expected a fair representation of black and...

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  12. Poor records on race and on pay 4

    Your article "Discretionary pay is 'lottery'" (March 4) highlights the real risks of any kind of performance-related pay. The experience of new universities that have such schemes shows the dangers....

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  13. Part-timers' partners 1

    We do not think part-time students are the Cinderellas of higher education ("Everybody deserves a chance to go to the ball", March 4). We agree with Ivor Crewe that this is the impression the...

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  14. Part-timers' partners 2

    As a typical mature student, I would like to make some observations on part-time study. First, if one opts to pay fees incrementally, interest adds substantially to the cost. Second, the university...

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  15. Admit your paternity

    MPs have condemned the UK e-University as a "disgraceful waste" of public funds and found that Sir Alan Wilson "cannot escape criticism" (News, March 4). Fair enough. But what about the ministers...

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