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  1. Campus havens, classroom hell 2

    From the periphery of the lecturers' labour market, I empathise with Tina Brown. But are academics "gutless"? The following ads for postgraduate research fellows appeared recently in The THES...

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  2. Insular arguments

    Alison Wolf (Columnist, THES , November 14) paints a dismal but familiar picture of UK higher education and its inherent parochialism. Only one sentence in the entire article mentions the benefits (...

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  3. Pension pitfalls

    Alexander Wedderburn's problem of non-recognition of his Universities Superannuation Scheme pension by German universities (Letters, THES , November 14) matches mine, but in reverse. I made my...

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  4. Prudence on pay

    If the Association of University Teachers is at odds with colleagues in other unions (Jocelyn Prudence, Letters, THES , November 14), it is because it does not strike two-year pay deals at 4am when...

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  5. Les autres

    As usual Laurie Taylor moved me to an involuntary snigger, this time with his column on solidarity with university administrators ( THES , November 14). It reminded me of when I was on an...

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  6. Fat lot of good

    Have the researchers who are developing a drug to burn excess fat ("Aston finds fat-buster clue", THES , 14 November) worked out the economics? We would be able to eat lots more fat and sugar with...

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  7. Wrighting a wrong

    Ever since he rejoined the Open University, Graham Gibbs has been a frequent visitor to the office next to mine to share a sandwich lunch with the occupant, Vicky Lewis, and on many occasions they...

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  8. It's in the post-

    "After theory"? Good riddance to poststructuralism, its flawed, failed ideas and obfuscations ("We're all theorists now", THES , November 14). Faced with a Kantian Nazi, Foucault's "very tenuous link...

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  9. Photo fit?

    May we have a proper photograph of Phil Baty? A man who can jump to far-fetched conclusions while blowing a whistle with his foot in his mouth should be something for the anatomists to ponder. Alan...

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  10. Private revolution in the air

    V-cs seem ready to break with the state by securing other funding streams but, as Chris Bunting reports, talk of privatised autonomy is a red herring for most universities. It was a peculiarly polite...

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  12. Why bad news is no news and crime is big business

    Government censorship of criminal research is spreading to academe, say Steve Tombs and Dave Whyte In 1997, after New Labour was first elected, one of Tony Blair's most trusted confidants, Lord...

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  13. A worst-case scenario that gets worse

    Is your university incident team ready to face fatalities? Olga Wojtas reports from a real-time reconstruction When staff arrive at 9.30am, they get a message from the convener of the university...

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  14. Conversion to another code

    With the help of the world cup, rugby union is muscling in on Aussie academe, says Huw Richards This weekend, Australia will come under the world spotlight as it hosts the final of the Rugby Union...

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  15. Whiter shade of beyond the pale

    Racial categories used in North America don't translate to the South, especially in Brazil, where asking people for their raca has elicited as many as 135 different 'colour' terms, says John Norvell...

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