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  1. Can't sit back and get a chair 1

    I was surprised to read that my university, Nottingham Trent, "would look for less in the way of quantity of research output than would happen in old universities" ("Is an easy chair culture taking...

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  2. Can't sit back and get a chair 2

    Surrey University has long recognised the challenge between the need to maintain the academic integrity of the professoriat and the need to reward academic staff who are both good teachers and...

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  3. Can't sit back and get a chair 3

    The fact that the professor of media and film studies at University College, Winchester does not know the difference between "accusative" and "accusatory" is surely indicative (if not indicatory)....

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  4. Can't access all areas

    Surely the future of Aimhigher - designed to widen access to higher education - is threatened by a lack of clear measures for its £300 million investment? There are some worrying signs that the...

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  5. Animals slow progress

    Chris Patten's article "Fear and secrecy pose a threat to our future", (November 26) reveals, perhaps surprisingly, that he agrees with some of the ideals of the British Union for the Abolition of...

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  6. Lambert plays Cinders

    Your leader makes the point that a year after the Lambert report, little has changed to aid "third stream" projects in universities ("Third stream is not third class", December 10) CMU was under the...

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  7. Way to Memory Lane

    Nicholas Cull's mention of R. J. Unstead's Looking at History as "the textbook that changed my life" (Textbook Guide, November 26) did, no doubt, provide many of us with the chance to go down Memory...

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  8. Sensitive or censor 1

    Your report on Durham University's learner sensitivity programme ("'Ethics' ruling raises fears for free speech", December 17) will be very good news for academics in the North. Surely, there will...

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  9. Sensitive or censor 2

    Suppose the ethics committee at Durham University forbids me to teach a certain subject, but I decide to exercise my academic freedom (enshrined in law) and teach it anyway. Will I be disciplined?...

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  10. Powerless left to pay

    Lisa Jardine ("Playing at God, but working for all humanity", December 17) is right to point out that it is the developments brought by past technology that enable us to enjoy the luxury of rejecting...

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  11. Rational belief

    Daniel Jones opines that "In the absence of independent reasons to believe something, we are entitled to not believe it" (Letters, December 17). I wonder what possible "independent" evidence he could...

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  12. Still talking

    Despite your headline "Union's anger at pay deal" (December 10), I would draw your attention to the fact that local negotiations with Natfhe union branch officers are continuing and arrangements are...

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  13. Why are we so tongue tied in the face of being silenced?

    Speak up, modern languages academics, enjoins Malcolm Cook. We must make the same noise about closures as our chemist colleagues When a university decides it will close chemistry there is a public...

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  14. Bodies of knowledge

    Voracia Storme mixes pleasure with the business of taking the University of the Dome to the top in Sally Feldman's tale, which was runner-up in our contest to write the opening chapter of a satirical...

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  15. Hats off to the PANTS people

    And the winners are ... Mandy Garner opens the envelope and reveals the recipients of the Poppleton Awards for Notorious Teaching and Scholarship It's that time again. You've scarcely looked up since...

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