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  1. Is honesty a policy that pays off? 2

    Erik Ringmar is to be admired for his honesty in informing prospective London School of Economics students that they can expect to be taught by PhD students and not by the experts in their field of...

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  2. Is honesty a policy that pays off? 3

    That university teaching staff are poorly paid is widely recognised. In comparison with, say, teachers or medical staff of comparable skill, and even firefighters or train drivers, salaries are low....

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  3. Is honesty a policy that pays off? 4

    The comparison of academics' salaries with those of other professionals is welcome. But in this, and the story "V-cs start to dock pay" (May 12), you follow the Universities and Colleges Employers'...

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  4. All sides of the debate 1

    Chaminda Jayanetti's opinion article ("Neither pay nor morale will improve if you give in", May 12) is woefully wide of the mark in all aspects but one - that he is in a shrinking minority of...

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  5. All sides of the debate 2

    Students at Exeter University's Students' Guild annual general meeting defeated a motion that proposed having the entire student body vote on the AUT's assessment boycott and what the Student Guild...

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  6. All sides of the debate 3

    Prudence has been a quality singularly lacking in the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association's actions in the pay dispute ("V-cs start to dock pay", May 12). Once it was known that top-up...

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  7. Where are you?

    I was surprised to read Keith Flett's letter about whether academics were around campus or not (May 12). I thought that this kind of thinking disappeared a long time ago. It certainly has in the...

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  8. Switched on to digital

    Fay Weldon tried to write for the web and gave up (Features, May 12). She could consider applying for a place on the online MA in creative writing and new media at De Montfort University, where she...

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  9. Boycott still possible

    It is untrue that the policy passed at the Association of University Teachers council last Thursday would "in effect rule out any future boycott of Israeli universities" ("Differences of policy over...

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  10. Psychological support

    William Keenan applauds De Montfort University's decision to withdraw its psychology degrees from British Psychological Society accreditation (Letters, May 12). He suggests that psychologists, backed...

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  11. Keep up with Lapping

    I see Cambridge University is trying to keep up with the forward-looking University of Poppleton (Laurie Taylor, May 12) by advertising for a lecturer in space planning (Jobs, May 12). John Mingers...

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  12. An exclusive kind of fellow

    John Lloyd will head Oxford University's new Institute for the Study of Journalism. Huw Richards meets him Young man, journalism is a course of study that Oxford does not do!" John Lloyd is growing...

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  13. Toothpaste and other triumphs

    Many new 'lifestyle' products have been created or inspired by academics. Harriet Swain uncovers the extraordinary in the everyday Think of a typical morning. You brush your teeth, shave perhaps,...

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  14. Are China's prisoners being killed to order?

    China must address the issue of using executed convicts' organs for transplantation if it is to compete in medical research, says Stephen Wigmore British universities have flocked to China in recent...

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  15. Drawing passion from the crowds

    Should architects of, and curators in, modern museums forget impressive gestures and create more low-key affairs to engage a wider audience? asks Hugh Aldersey-Williams Social inclusion has damaged...

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