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  1. Laurie Taylor Column

    From: The Departmental Secretary (Maureen) To: All students Subject: Industrial Action As you may know, university lecturers are taking industrial action in pursuance of their pay claim. Although we...

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  2. Leader: V-cs' pay hike is asking for trouble

    Two years ago, with a pay dispute looming, our survey of vice-chancellors' pay showed the leaders of universities receiving rises roughly twice those awarded to their staff. The contrast inevitably...

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  3. Leader: Leeds must endure Ellis

    The case of Frank Ellis underlines once more how difficult it can be for universities to reconcile academic freedom with other legitimate concerns, such as the sensibilities of their students and the...

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  4. Don't squeal if strikers lose pay 1

    I, like your writer last week, have left the Association of University Teachers over its pay dispute (Opinion, March 3). And I agree that much of the blame for the industrial action rests with the...

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  5. Don't squeal if strikers lose pay 2

    I read with interest "Why I'll be striking/Why I won't be" and sympathise with both correspondents. Yes, university staff endure insulting levels of pay and deteriorating working conditions and...

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  6. Don't squeal if strikers lose pay 3

    Your suggestion (Leader, March 3) of a major split between the Association of University Teachers and lecturers' union Natfhe on what assessment sanctions should be imposed in our pay dispute is a...

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  7. Fearful not guilty 1

    It started with phone calls, every two minutes, followed by the unrequested pizza deliveries. Next, the paint stripper all over the car at three in the morning and finally (to date) the letter that...

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  8. Fearful not guilty 2

    The article by Laurie Pycroft contains several inaccuracies. First, the idea of animal research being necessary for medical advance is strongly disputed within the scientific community and has been...

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  9. Outclassing natives 1

    The article "Overseas students better at English" (March 3) repeats complaints that have been made for 30 years. Most high-achieving students who speak more than one language are likely to have...

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  10. Outclassing natives 2

    There is nothing surprising in the findings about British students' grammar and spelling. One could have predicted this from the reliance on word processors and the new language of mobile-phone text...

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  11. Science needs friends

    Lord May is not alone in noticing how US television portrays science in a more favourable light than in the UK ("It's science, Jim, but not as we know it", February 17). The sitcom Friends had an...

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  12. Professional shame

    David Southall suggests that the reason the General Medical Council struck off Sir Roy Meadow was a perceived need to redress previous failures of regulation ("Justice for a hero of hidden errors",...

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  13. Back to our back yard?

    Was I alone in struggling to find sympathy for Sir Paul Nurse ("Nurse turns on US as research is 'besieged'", March 3)? Only two years after leaving Britain for the US (presumably attracted by, among...

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  14. Sign only if certain

    Stephen Senn (Letters, March 3) overlooked a significant point regarding the publicised drug study collaboration of Procter & Gamble with Sheffield University. Authors and all scientists take the...

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  15. Online support

    Although I appreciated the positive reflections on my Quantitative Methods for Business text (Textbook Guide, February 24), I would like to make a correction. The book is supported by a website -...

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