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  1. US faculty play a numbers game

    Academic salaries in the US have been soaring as faculty vie for the best, but, writes Stephen Phillips, pay inflation is slowing. "I have a formula," recounts literary critic Stanley Fish, dean of...

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  2. Skeggie lad enjoys pasta and Carnage

    Money's tight and a 9am seminar is no fun with a hangover, but Liam Twigg is still happy to be the first in his family to enrol at university. Harriet Swain joined him in Birmingham for the fourth...

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  3. Medium fright

    I am surprised you report that the research assessment exercise "does not yet recognise digitally published research" ("Take away the books and chairs collapse", THES , November 8). As a monograph...

    #Letters

  4. Funding firsts

    Leicester University's US funding coup is an achievement but it is not a first ("Leicester wins US funding for trial on red wine cancer drug", THES , November 8). Twenty-five years ago at Middlesex...

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  5. In brief 2

    Pop idol Gareth Gates was involved in publicity for Bradford's City of Culture bid ("Open market shuts door on scholarly achievement", THES , November 8). But the university made no use of his...

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  6. In brief 3

    The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education is UK based but not UK owned. It began as a joint UK/Commonwealth organisation and now has a global membership ("Canny spin-off hailed as trendsetter",...

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  7. In brief 1

    As a highly practical male academic I find Angela Clow's comment, "one of the roles I play in this department is to be the woman and point this sort of thing out", sexist and objectionable ("All in a...

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  8. Great returns on your money? 1

    Calculations of the return on investing in a degree are examples of fantasy economics worthy of the greatest scepticism ("Money back guaranteed?", THES , November 8). The calculation has to be...

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  9. Great returns on your money? 2

    Tim O'Shea's arguments against greater university reliance on fee income (Soapbox, THES , November 8) need rebutting. O'Shea correctly asserts that public funding annually per gross domestic product...

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  10. Gaining time

    The adoption of the North American grade-point system will be good news not only for students and employers but also for academics ("US grading to edge out 'firsts'", THES , November 15). As the...

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  11. Joking aside

    Laurie Taylor is wrong in his review of The Mirth of Nations to suggest that I was driven by ideology to refute the connection between ethnic joking and hostility and conflict (Books, THES , November...

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  12. Value judgements

    The Quality Assurance Agency complains that it still receives "self-evaluation documents that are not sufficiently self-critical" ("College HE standards hit by flawed marking", THES , November 15)....

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  13. Engineering language

    I am always interested in other scholars' views of my work - after all, the academic calling is about the search for truth - and engineers' views on the Middle Ages are particularly welcome as they...

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  14. Breaking the mould

    John C. Waller should check his facts before trying to debunk Alexander Fleming. In "Dimming the light of reflected glory" (Features, THES , November 15), he states: "But Fleming's notebooks and...

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  15. Call for researchers in scientific and social issues

    Brussels, 20 Nov 2002 The Branco Weiss Fellowship has issued a call for applications for talented researchers, offering them the opportunity to conceive and develop a personal research agenda/idea...

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