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  1. UCU fears employer bid to block action over pay

    Negotiators reject Ucea draft pay guidance that all unions be bound by majority view. Melanie Newman reports. The lecturers' union fears that it will be prevented from taking industrial action...

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  2. Laurie Taylor column

    "Southampton University is offering its academics media training so that their work is known and appreciated and they are seen to contribute to life, not just academic research." The Times Higher ,...

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  3. Leader: Research must yield more than economic payoff

    This week's announcement that the research councils will use potential economic impact as one way of deciding which projects to fund is welcome. It should lead to better decision-making, and it will...

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    #Opinion

  4. Private degrees: cash cows? 1

    An obvious objection to the granting of university degree-awarding status to BPP College ("Private college to award degrees", September 28) is that the broader view of what constitutes the quality of...

    #Letters

  5. Private degrees: cash cows? 2

    I am sure that universities have nothing whatsoever to fear from "healthy competition", if that is what BPP College will offer. But we are entitled to ask if such competition will be healthy for...

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  6. Private degrees: cash cows? 3

    The first private profit-making institution has been granted degree-awarding powers by the Privy Council. Some might see this as the beginning of the end, others that the end has arrived. In fact,...

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  7. A sense of freedom 1

    I am grateful that The Times Higher has raised the issue of the parlous state of academic freedom in the UK when compared with other European Union states via its coverage of my article in the...

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  8. A sense of freedom 2

    The debate about the level of legal protection afforded to academics working in the UK is ongoing. There is the need to define "academic freedom" and ensure it is not confused with "freedom of speech...

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  9. Look beyond the elite

    The Sutton Trust's report ("Elite few still fill universities", September 21) provides only a partial truth about participation because the research methodology was limited to looking at elite...

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  10. Control required

    Elsewhere in this issue, our chief inspector Gerald Vinten echoes the long-standing concerns that we at the British Accreditation Council have had about the weak controls the UK has had over degree...

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  11. Why is debate 'illegal'?

    University and College Union members were to participate in a unique debate: meetings involving Palestinian and Israeli academics discussing the pros and cons of a boycott vis-a-vis Israeli...

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  12. Value for money?

    Congratulations on balanced reporting of the Higher Education Policy Institute survey ("Part-time effort for full-time degrees", September 28) - in particular on avoiding the "lazy students" line...

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  13. Waugh-ha ha

    Laurie Taylor in his review of Evocative Objects (Books, September 28) says that one of the jokes at Forest Hill Comprehensive School was the story of the English teacher who, unable to control his...

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  14. Reality check

    From the choice of a child's name to the widespread difficulty in understanding the laws of physics, human beings are governed, Steven Pinker says, by innate and often fallacious conceptual...

    #Features

  15. Conflicts of interest

    Diaspora communities worldwide look back to, and sometimes frustrate peace plans in, the countries from which they have fled. How best, asks Hazel Smith, to make these far-flung peoples a force for...

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