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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...