Do your dues pay?
Jill Jones' claim that derisory pay offers suggest the absence of a cosy relationship between unions and employers does not stand up (Letters, October 28). It could equally be argued that poor pay...
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Debate's design flaw
Nobody involved in architectural education would deny there is some currency in the stereotype portrayed by Alison Wolf (Opinion, October 28) that "architecture schools are almost entirely occupied...
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Privacy proposal
Full economic costing of grant research proposals is now live and its arrival is to be applauded. The issue of salary costing and calculation of "effort on project" for principal and co-applicants is...
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New breed of trouble
It would take "four to five years before enough transgenic birds could be bred to replace the world's broiler chicken population" ("Virologists hatch plan to beat bird flu", October 28). The threat...
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Read on
What a guru Frank Furedi is turning out to be. One of the smallest contributions to The Times Higher on October 21, "Give them a little textual pleasure" (Working Knowledge), was, for me, one of the...
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Einstein on Zionism
In his review of Einstein on Race and Racism by Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor, Andrew Robinson refers to Albert Einstein's support for the Zionist movement (Books, October 28). This claim needs to be...
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Patten's point
Oxford University's chan-cellor, Lord Patten, fully supports the institution's desire to reform its governance structure - but it is wrong to suggest that he is exhorting Cambridge University to...
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The institute of bad ideas
The world makes little sense. Irrationality and brutality are on the rise. Every day brings more fear, confusion and bewilderment. Are there answers to our questions, solutions to our problems? Not...
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A man of letters and large brown envelopes
Roger McGough recalls how, as a student in the Fifties, he discovered his vocation for poetry, with a little encouragement from a positively prickly Hull librarian Philip Larkin became Hull...
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Poems from the academy
Lines to a Don, by Hilaire Belloc Remote and ineffectual Don That dared attack my Chesterton, With that poor weapon, half-impelled, Unlearnt, unsteady, hardly held, Unworthy for a tilt with men -...
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The touchy-feely brigade: coming your way soon
Fear of hurting people's feelings is killing critical debate. Dennis Hayes calls on fellow scholars to resist those who want to trade judgment for emotion Something is happening to academic freedom....
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Campus curiosities 16 The electric professor, Glagow university
While the rest of the world relied on gas or candle, at the heart of Glasgow University's campus, night was banished by electric light. In fact, by Christmas 1881, number 11 The Square, the home of...
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Attention! Top brass agree new manoeuvre
At the Army's behest, psychologist Lew Hardy is turning centuries of tradition on its head. Paul Hill explains why The deaths of four young people at Deepcut barracks tarnished for ever the popular...
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Mars Express PFS spectrometer back at work
Paris, 02 Nov 2005 The Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft is now back in operation after a malfunction, reported a few months ago. The instrument had been...
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Today's news
Universities urged to consider expanding bursary schemes Universities should increase the number of bursaries they award to students wanting to enter law and medicine to ensure that top-up fees do...