Equality role not gender-specific 2
I was shocked by the comments about the University and College Union's decision to give Paul Mackney responsibility for equalities. I have worked closely with Mackney for several years. His track...
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Equality role not gender-specific 3
I have no idea whether Sally Hunt or anybody else is the most suitable person to deal with equality matters at the University and College Union but I was depressed by the sexist undertone of the...
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Farewell to Frank Ellis
The devil looks after his own and in the case of Frank Ellis it's a truism. He decided to take early retirement and Leeds University has given him with a sweetener of one year's salary as well as...
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Justifiable concern
I'm sorry to intrude on your navel-gazing but I resent a paragraph in your touching article "Staff exposed to parent rage" (July 7) that is intended to be read as the straw that broke the back of the...
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Quality engagement
You would never have known from the article about the Quality Assurance Agency's report on the outcomes of the institutional audit of 24 specialist institutions that the majority were found to be...
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Terrorism isn't protest
Matthew Humphrey and Marc Stears find the fact that medical researchers are protected by legislation "problematic" ("Disruptive politics must be allowed to muscle in", Opinion, July 7). They suggest...
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No to pension change
University and College Union members in post-1992 institutions are being balloted on proposed changes to their pensions. These changes will have a detrimental effect on future academics and set up a...
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Assess the stress
Health and safety isn't just about physical health ("Sector's safety record slated", July 14). The Health and Safety Executive classes work-related stress as an occupational hazard and has approached...
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Give up citing Galileo
Once again we see the tired citing of Galileo as the exemplification of an anti-education Church of Rome ("Must science always end up on the altar?", Features, July 14). That would be the Galileo who...
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What is it there for?
It was dispiriting to hear that the main talking point at the Higher Education Academy annual conference was the fact that academic staff have to juggle roles ("Juggling staff have crisis of identity...
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The face of things to come
Full-facial transplants may be tempting for severely disfigured people but they carry many physical risks, not to mention the psychological implications, writes Nichola Rumsey Our faces reflect signs...
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Some serious fun with games
The UK's first professor of video games is also passionate about horror films - a genre that has experienced a renaissance since 9/11. Sara Wajid meets her The video game has come of age. Brunel...
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'Home from home' help
Children in deprived areas often lack the parental support needed to get to university. But a project aims to change all that, discovers Mandy Garner It's the end of a long talk on the Second World...
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Will the green belt buckle?
Universities are under pressure to expand, but development often leads them headlong into battle with locals, reports Anna Fazackerley If York University gets its way, the rural village of Heslington...
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First rumblings of a call to arms
How did we arrive at global jihad? A student researching the madrassas of Northern Pakistan stumbled across some answers. Mandy Garner reports When Sana Haroon began research on the history of...