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  2. From where I sit: Think outside the book

    A few years ago, I served on the Modern Language Association (MLA) Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion. The committee was formed in the belief that young scholars in...

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  4. UUK's two-tier pension bid is justly unpopular 1

    The University and College Union read with interest the valiant attempt by the Universities UK chief executive Nicola Dandridge to sell the employers' proposals to reform the Universities...

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  5. UUK's two-tier pension bid is justly unpopular 2

    Nicola Dandridge's argument for changing the Universities Superannuation Scheme elides the fundamental moral difference between university managers and the University and College Union. The proposal...

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  6. They forgot to mind the gap

    I wonder whether the severance conditions afforded to the outgoing vice-chancellor at the University of Cumbria will be extended to all staff and students at that beleaguered institution ("Cumbria...

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  7. 'Customer': not always right

    It is excellent to see that institutional researchers are now beginning to turn their attention to the experiences of academic staff in higher education ("'Service excellence' means treating staff as...

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  8. They're worth it, they say

    Considering Vince Cable's attack on the salaries of vice-chancellors ("Cable 'taken aback' by recent v-c pay rises", www.times highereducation.co.uk, May), the prescience of Malcolm McVicar, vice-...

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  9. Not such a bargain after all

    I see the Russell Group are now quoting a figure of £160,000 in increased lifetime earnings for their graduates, in order to justify increasing their tuition fees.There must be some difficulty in...

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  10. Affair comment

    Oh dear. Margot Feelbetter's advice to an academic whose colleague may be having a relationship with a student ("Blog Confidential", May) demonstrates all the confusions of the prurient but misses...

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  11. Recognise anyone?

    Nathan Emmerich (Letters, May) is rightly concerned at the promotion of a view of research students as infantile. But humour has a long and respected role in challenging the status quo. Jorge Cham's...

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  12. Sign in haste, repent later

    Regarding the Fruitbatgate affair ("Yikes! Attack of the killer viral fruit bats", May), I would argue that the reputational damage has been done not to University College Cork but to the 3,763...

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  13. Engineering change

    John Turner (Letters, May) has not provided any specific examples of universities that have been prevented from introducing innovative engineering curricula by professional bodies' requirements. If...

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  14. Attractive forces at work

    Being brilliant academically isn't enough any more - if you want your career to soar you need to cultivate your erotic capital assets. Catherine Hakim advises scholars to use everything they've got

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  15. My eureka moment: Nothing to lose but the washing up

    Rebellion was everywhere in the 1960s, recalls Sally Feldman, but Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch made the most audacious demand of all: for a feminist revolution that was personal and political

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