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  1. The wrong sort of society

    A market-dominated culture fails to sustain social mobility, writes Alan Ryan

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  3. Sally Ledger, 1961-2009

    Sally Ledger, a leading authority on Victorian culture and women's writing, has died.

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  4. The facts on pay still look bleak to me

    Jocelyn Prudence (Letters, 22 January) urges us to "examine the facts". I have worked at the University of Leeds for nearly 35 years and during that time, the job of raising a family has proved quite...

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  5. Value for money

    Sally Hunt's analysis of the salary of the vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton is confused and incomplete (Letters, 29 January). She seeks to compare a potential future increase in pay...

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  6. Fraud is fraud worldwide

    I don't think Niall Hayes' article on plagiarism is particularly helpful ("A cheat, moi? That's unfair", 29 January). Obviously there is more to a plagiarism "offence" than a simple similarity count...

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  7. Statistical uncertainty

    Brenda Gourley's timing was unfortunate (Letters, 29 January). On the day her letter appeared, the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills issued a Statistical First Release for 2007-08,...

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  8. Male-tinted glasses

    Last week's ߣߣÊÓƵ confirms something I've been noticing for years. The illustrations of the typical academic, whether photos or cartoons, tend to assume he is male.This seems to be...

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  9. Intellectual evolution

    Les Ebdon argues that "Older isn't always wiser" (29 January). That may be appropriate in some disciplines, but there are some striking exceptions, especially in biology and with holistic rather than...

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  10. New talent of all ages

    Your article "Nurture new talent, RAE panels say" (22 January) reports that the panels for the 2008 research assessment exercise expressed concern over a lack of funding for "new talent" and the...

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  11. Conduct unbecoming

    We are all professors at Leeds Metropolitan University and have been caught up in the controversy surrounding the sudden resignation of Simon Lee, the vice-chancellor. There is one aspect of your...

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  12. Working with differences

    Peter Brady ("Dragons and dinosaur views", 22 January) is correct in pointing out that many "cultural differences" programmes are unhelpful or even damaging. However, it is equally important not to...

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  13. Lifetime commitment

    Nick Barr ("Fees do not harm access, says architect of policy", 22 January) quotes a researcher in child development as saying that by the age of 18 all the damage is done. Ignatius of Loyola always...

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  14. 187345-990.13 writes

    You report that every academic in the world should be given a unique identification number ("What's in a name. By digits you will know us", 29 January). Is Laurie Taylor now writing everything in...

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  15. Praise for Gaza protest

    As individual members of the UCU Union National Executive Committee, we would like to send solidarity greetings to students at 17 universities who have occupied their colleges in protest over the...

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