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  1. Ageing, underpaid, but still able 2

    As a reasonably productive 40-something researcher, I am wondering at what point I will become "ageing, expensive and underproductive"? Given that most of us start off as youngish ambitious academics...

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  2. Ageing, underpaid, but still able 3

    As a 50-year-old entrant to university research and teaching, I am saddened by the hostile response the European Union's anti-ageism legislation has provoked. The law exists to ensure applicants are...

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  3. New but not ignored

    Your article about the report from the House of Commons science and technology committee on the government funding of learned societies contained an inaccuracy about the Royal Society ("MPs put...

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  4. Elite given the edge 1

    You failed to mention the extra £6 million a year given to elite universities to increase the proportion of state-schooled pupils ("Intake up for state pupils at top 13", THES , August 2). A 4 per...

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  5. Successful scrutiny

    The article about the Quality Assurance Agency audit of Luton University in March 2001 lacked balance and objectivity ("Luton told to raise its game in quality row", THES , August 2). The QAA report...

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  6. Elite given the edge 2

    While yearning for a lost Arcadia ("Passion dies for bride of the state", THES , August 2), Kenneth Minogue refers to the state "adopting increasing numbers of rather backward children". Assuming he...

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  7. Examine the logic 1

    How much time and effort could have been saved if the external-examiner system had been addressed at the beginning of the quality debate rather than at the end, (Editorial, THES , August 8)? As Lewis...

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  8. Examine the logic 2

    External examiners enable a department to see how its courses and teaching relate to those of other institutions with which the examiner is familiar. Department members rarely consider their teaching...

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  9. In brief 1

    So research students in science, engineering and maths are to get £40 a day to teach in secondary schools ("Differential pay given green light", THES , July 26). The London School of Economics' rate...

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  10. In brief 2

    By all means broaden the non-executive director recruitment pool to include academics (Why I, THES , July 26), but it is unlikely they will prove less fallible than their "vocational" peers. The...

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  11. In brief 3

    The European Union has not made a blanket commitment towards the promotion of privately funded higher education under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (Letters, THES , July 26). It has "...

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  12. Back off from boycott 1

    Victims of the terrorist attack on the Hebrew University of Jerusalem included Jews, Arabs and foreign students ("Bomb shakes Hebrew University", THES , August 2). This reinforces the view that...

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  13. Back off from boycott 2

    By the time the academic boycott of South African archaeologists began in 1985, archaeologists working inside South Africa had published radiocarbon dates that demonstrated that black South Africans...

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  15. Discussion open on European research council

    Brussels, 07 August 2002 The decision by the Danish Presidency to raise the issue of a possible European research council at an event in October has encouraged discussion on the possible role of the...

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