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  1. Dressed to impress or distress? 3

    Loraine Monk is right to resist a prescriptive dress code, but her comment that students would have less confidence in her if she wore a suit because she teaches media is a non sequitur. If...

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  2. Dressed to impress or distress? 4

    Dress codes for lecturers are not new. A few years ago, I was part of a group being briefed prior to a stint of teaching in prison. As the oldest and least attractive member, I was taken aback when...

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  3. Dressed to impress or distress? 5

    Organisations that start worrying about dress codes have lost the plot. The short-lived UK eUniversity used to worry about staff wearing sandals. As an employee, I was horrified that more attention...

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  4. Age-old questions 1

    Your story "Job boom looms as older staff bow out" (May ) raises interesting issues but makes one major assumption that requires comment. It is not necessarily the case that "new universities will be...

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  5. Age-old questions 2

    The imminent retirement of large numbers of staff from UK universities may well be a blessing for aspiring academics, but it comes with a sting in its tail. These retiring staff will collectively...

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  6. Free speech at risk

    It is one thing for senior managers at London Metropolitan University to comment on how the student union runs its affairs, but quite another for them to remove material they dislike from the student...

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  7. Spy rule No 1: no cravat

    Your article on American spies ("CIA outrages UK academics by planting spies in the classroom", June 3) reminded me of a similar occurrence when I was at Cambridge University in the mid-1960s. An...

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  8. A People person

    So Rob Read, Sussex University's director of communications, thinks "none of our academics or students' parents reads The People " ("Think beyond the cosmetic but don't make any boobs", June 3). Had...

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  9. Oxford's global rank

    Your article on the consultation responses to Oxford University's academic strategy "Unique Oxford 'at risk"' (June 3) incorrectly claims that the international benchmarking exercise undertaken by...

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  10. Back to nature - again

    Since my attitude to organic farming is rather simplistic (I support it by instinct but have no detailed knowledge) I was interested to read the article by Louise Fresco and colleagues to see what...

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  11. Why won't the public put their faith in scientists?

    Because researchers can't always provide definitive answers, making them appear vague and untrustworthy, but don't despair, says John Sulston Before starting this piece, I had been preparing a review...

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  12. No longer cox, just a member of the crew

    Casting around for ways to spend a sabbatical, one US college principal hit on a novel idea - enrol as a student. His classmates thought he was 'a not-very-bright older person', but for Roger Martin...

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  13. Hoods will fall in the common pursuit of high standards

    The shopping-mall model will be the death of universities When I return for the next academic year, there is every chance I will be asked to sign a new code of conduct for students. I don't think it...

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