Pension speculation
In providing a maximum pension of half of one's final salary, plus a tax-free lump of three times salary, the USS is providing benefits that are broadly equivalent to a pension of two-thirds of...
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Pension speculation
Paul Goldberg notes that whenever a USS member moves to another scheme, their USS pension entitlement is merely index-linked, leaving USS with an excess of cash (Letters, THES, April 21). Another...
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It cuts both ways
Your editorial ("There is still time to mend a flawed government bill", THES, April 21) confused two issues: the importance of higher education in the government's post-16 agenda and legal changes....
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Race for recognition
It is about time that Paul Gilroy ("Hearing around corners", THES, April 21) stopped using his limited time at the Greater London Council and his empirically and intellectually challenged...
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Race for recognition
Being described as a bear and held up to ridicule as a "professor of hip hop" are occupational hazards. But I would like to clear up a more important misapprehension. I have never proposed the...
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Race for recognition
While I agree with Mike Lambert ("The men who were born to run", THES, April 14) that there is a genetic predisposition to distance running in a small population in Kenya, this is entirely different...
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League of difference
Introductory notes to the league tables (THES, April 14), correctly stated that "efficiency is taken from the Hefce performance indicators". However, the column containing efficiency measures was...
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Out to Graz
Controversy over participation in the European Association for American Studies conference, which was held in Graz, Austria, in early April, led to a pre-conference meeting of representatives from...
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The pension millionaire game
Pension chiefs should learn tobe more open and ask the audience, says Andrew Oswald Chris Tarrant: Welcome to the only show where you, the regular person, can win riches. I believe you are Ulysses....
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Ken Richardson argued that aptitude tests would not get more working-class children into university. Anyone interested in the way that scholastic aptitude tests work should...
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Explaining the profits
Your money is in safe hands, says university pension scheme chief executive David Chynoweth. The pensions industry is under close scrutiny. And rightly so. The funds involved are huge and those...
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Is this the final frontier?
A mysterious, deep red point of light that might turn out to be by far the most distant object ever seen has astronomers baffled. The object, dubbed HDFN-JD1 by its discoverers, has been found in a...
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Stockholm
The number of students at Sweden's universities and university colleges will be increased by 10,500 in both 2001 and 2002, the government has announced. An extra Skr5 billion (Pounds 363 million)...
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Don's Diary
Monday Discuss cover design of new monograph series to be launched at our annual conference in July. Cannot decide if Picasso-esque logo is cleverly ironic postmodern comment slyly capturing the...
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Read my lips
(Photograph) - Read my lips: Lucy Preston, an MA student in sculpture at Winchester School of Art, designed 156 different plastercast mouths for a piece of work about traditional story-telling....