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  1. Laurie Taylor Column

    From: Maureen To: All members of department It's that time of year again, so I thought I'd remind you of the traditional treats of the season. 1. Christmas party Last year's decision to abandon the...

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  2. Leader: Cameron faces difficult choices

    With Labour's "education, education, education" increasingly reverting to an exclusive concentration on the primary and secondary phases, the presence of "well-funded universities" among the...

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  3. Leader: Unity needs harmony

    Academics' enthusiasm for a merged trade union made even the Tories' support for David Cameron look positively lukewarm: the turnout may have been lower, but almost 90 per cent backing for the...

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  4. Hi-tech play is fair game as art 1

    I was a little disappointed that computer scientists and English academics alone were asked to "ponder whether computer games could be artistic equals of great novels" ("Lara can hold a candle to...

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  5. Hi-tech play is fair game as art 2

    I sense a category error: it is not for the Booker prize that some future computer game will be shortlisted ("The prize for literature goes to...," December 12) but for the Turner prize. And talking...

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  6. Ludicrous lose-lose

    The fact that students are likely to have their university bursaries delayed due to data protection requirements ("A missed tick could bite into bursaries", December 2) highlights a ludicrous...

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  7. 'Don't call us skivers'

    I would ask that The Times Higher apologises to Birmingham University staff for using the phrase "skiving off" in the article "V-c raps staff who skip graduation", (November 25). It is offensive to...

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  8. Hunt on wrong track 1

    Manchester University has sought to increase its profile through the appointment of Nobel laureates, with the first appointee to be paid an initial package worth £250,000 ("Manchester offer entices...

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  9. Hunt on wrong track 2

    A world in which desperate universities hunt down research stars in a quest for cash may resonate with the cynics, but for many of us this is not the case ("RAE poachers take big game", December 2)....

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  10. Hunt on wrong track 3

    Presumably the poaching of entire research teams ahead of the research assessment exercise is confined to science departments. Humanities departments are still rejecting applicants who have published...

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  11. Communal research

    I have been reading recent letters and articles about the web and plagiarism. While not wishing to deny that there is a problem, I find myself asking whether there hasn't been a qualitative change in...

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  12. Positive on IP reforms

    Sir John Sulston is rightly concerned that we need to get our scholarly work into the public domain ("Laureate warns over intellectual property reform", November 25), and Cambridge has gone further...

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  13. Lessons for the NHS

    The announcement that more National Health Service trusts are desperate for money again leads to the questions of how and why? In 1950, the annual cost of the NHS was about £350 million: the monetary...

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  14. The love that speaks its name in Hello!

    When Michael Jackson dangled his small child out of a hotel window, did his fans desert him? Of course not, says Terry Eagleton, and therein lies the nature of celebrity Celebrities go a long way...

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  15. Freedom is first fatality as a new iron curtain falls

    Bill Bowring, a human rights lawyer, was deported from Russia and fears for NGOs in the country At 5am on November 15, I was stopped by Russian passport control and prevented from entering the...

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