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  1. Strike a blow for the small fry 1

    While the threat of strike action by the Association of University Teachers and lecturers' union Natfhe hangs over all in the higher education sector ("Flexing muscles will not improve the figure",...

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  2. Strike a blow for the small fry 2

    Regardless of how I decide to vote in the ballot for industrial action, I am always depressed by boardroom justifications for inequitable pay rises along the lines of: "Their remuneration packages...

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  3. Strike a blow for the small fry 3

    Ucea is right to argue that the unions should not rush into industrial action. After all, we can trust them, can't we? We haven't seen any significant decline in our salaries in the past decades, we...

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  4. No faith in the science

    I looked forward to Channel 4's recent two-part presentation by Richard Dawkins, The Root of All Evil? After all, here was an Oxford University professor who holds the chair for the public...

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  5. Value for money? 1

    Tim Birkhead complains that his daughter, to whose education he makes a financial contribution, has some great teachers but one dull lecturer whose classes students either skip or spend texting their...

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  6. Value for money? 2

    Tim Birkhead's change of perspective on university teaching as a result of becoming a parent of a student feels familiar. With a daughter hoping to go to university in 2007, my concerns are partly...

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  7. Unchanging times

    You report both that Bristol is leading the way with 50 per cent of its research staff now on permanent contracts ("Bristol leads culture change", January 6) and that this can be done without...

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  8. Top idea, few riches

    I am listed in "Wealthy sultans of spin-off cash in on their ideas" (January 20) as one of the 100 top science entrepreneurs who have earned the most money from exploiting their academic work....

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  9. Detestable debates

    Although Voltaire never wrote "I detest what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it", it's not a bad principle. So all credit to The Times Higher for giving space in the January...

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  10. An artless critique

    I always thought that the point of reviews was to enter into a critical dialogue with the work under scrutiny. This is not the case with Winston Fletcher's lambasting of my book Art and Advertising...

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  11. Reality check

    There have been two recent references in your pages to physics at the University of Poppleton. While Laurie Taylor's reports might occasionally lead one to consider whether that struggling...

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  12. 'He did all that was possible - he saved 150 Jews'

    Should Israel honour a Ukrainian who sheltered Jews from the Nazis - even if he backed the SS? Anne Sebba meets a man who thinks so Why would an Israeli, let alone a retired historian, fight for the...

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  13. Genius rings out despite manuscript's missing notes

    Mozart remains an elusive and frustrating figure to scholars 250 years after his birth, but his music still moves audiences, Christopher Wood discovers It's Mozart year. Forget for a moment that for...

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  15. ...is growing in authority and relevance

    Miles Hewstone, who has helped edit 16 books, says texts have come a long way in presentation and suitability from the dull, monochrome volumes he remembers as an undergraduate The honour of...

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