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  1. Students don't need 24/7 care 2

    Academics complain that they are too available, responding to e-mails and telephone calls any time, any day ("24/7 demand leaves staff besieged", March 23). The true problem is not managers who...

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  2. Students don't need 24/7 care 3

    So Andrew Devlin is making his stand for independence by not answering his e-mails on a US trip. That'll show them who's boss, eh? As there are 2 million people in the world without access to fresh...

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  3. A marking mockery 1

    I am a third-year student at Bournemouth University who took Paul Buckland's "reconstruction" unit last year and am taking his "archaeology of the medieval church" unit this year ("Marks U-turn is '...

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  4. A marking mockery 2

    Bournemouth treads a slippery slope with its rhetoric when it undermines the marking authority of a professor such as Paul Buckland. Its dangerous message is that it is willing to rob its faculty of...

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  5. Boycotters' bias

    Two Israelis from Haifa University have been offered posts at British institutions. No whisper of boycott about the appointment of Rafi Almagor, a Zionist taking a politics post at Hull University....

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  6. Reward all research

    That 1* activity will not be funded after the 2008 research assessment exercise appears to be accepted as "fact" within much of the sector, probably owing to a perception that the Higher Education...

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  7. Political or correct?

    Roy Harris laments the acceptance of international varieties of English as the latest turn in political correctness (Opinion, March 30). However, what he describes as political correctness is...

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  8. A damaging affair

    Your sensationalist article "Conferences: places to present new ideas and old mistresses" (March 23) is unworthy of both The Times Higher and the vast majority of academics, for whom conferences are...

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  9. Slavery studies

    The claim that there are no academic studies on modern slavery because few academics are conducting such research is wrong ("Slave trade sees no let-up 200 years on", March 23). There has been...

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  10. Remove restrictions

    The assumption behind the argument of the vice-chancellor and the pro chancellor of Canterbury Christ Church University (Letters, March 23) is that the restrictions on academic freedom enshrined in...

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  11. Baffled Bedfordshire

    In response to the letter published in the March 16 issue of The Times Higher relating to the treatment of contract staff, the anonymous writer failed to mention that Bedfordshire University follows...

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  12. Law is not at fault

    Fixed-Term Employees Regulations were never intended to give contract research staff or sessional tutors job property rights ("Fears over job security", March 23). The parliamentary debates around...

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  13. Click era spawns a data-rich world

    The digitisation of all aspects of life offers a treasure trove of empirical information that could help make social studies truly scientific. Bruno Latour assesses the potential. Who would know how...

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  14. Great might-have-been hints at what might be

    Born-again academic and former US presidential candidate Gary Hart gives Huw Richards an insight into Clinton's and Obama's chances in 2008. Gary Hart could be described as a born-again academic....

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  15. How to get ready for the big ask

    The Government wants universities to raise more income by fundraising. So can they learn anything from their counterparts in the US, where targeting the rich is a way of life? Stephen Phillips...

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