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  1. Notts - boycotts and biting back 3

    Sir Colin Campbell, Nottingham University's vice-chancellor, has lost sight of the wood for the trees. Fighting to keep some staff on lower wage levels and to give them poorer access to pensions than...

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  2. Notts - boycotts and biting back 4

    Nottingham University's vice-chancellor should worry more about running an academic community than being a government stooge and following the bean-counting trend. Roddie McKenzie Edinburgh University

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  3. Notts - boycotts and biting back 5

    Only a few months after the memorandum of understanding on pay and grading was agreed, it appears that Nottingham University's management is on course to break it by imposing unacceptable barriers to...

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  4. Academy 'biases'

    Peter Brown, the secretary of the British Academy, has clearly been reading a different version of the National Audit Office report on abuses of process in the Centenary Research Award Competition...

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  5. Ghost writer?

    It seems that Stephen Phillips, in trying to catch up with the writings of the prolific Paul Krugman (Features, August 13), has overlooked J. K. Galbraith's The Economics of Innocent Fraud , which...

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  6. Debt acknowledged

    The response of Julia King to the death of Francis Crick is more than a little churlish ("Not many scientists can claim immortality", August 6). If King looks up the Watson-Crick paper in Nature (...

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  7. Pass history

    Your report from Middlesex University ("Staff angered by failure rule", August 13) is consistent with what, quietly, many people have told one another for years. When I was a lecturer at another...

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  8. Degrees of benefit

    Whether a graduate's job could be done by a non-graduate ("Medics and artists top job league", August 13) is the wrong question to ask when thinking about how many people should go to university. The...

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  9. Don't dismiss support

    I am disappointed at David McAlpine's letter (August 6), especially the excerpt that says "the unions that claim to speak for academics negotiate us on to the same pay scale as those who clean our...

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  10. No right to cry foul

    I am dissatisfied with the prominence you have given to commonplace comments made by a recent graduate on the personal advantages of studying abroad. The presentation of facts in your article about...

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  11. Support net falls short

    In all the debate about the abuse of hardship funds, little has been said about the position of overseas students (Letters, August 6). Not content with taking large amounts of money from these...

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  12. Talented, articulate, bullied and fobbed off

    Travellers have the lowest school attendance rate of any minority. Michael North meets a man who is raising their aspirations. When gypsy campaigner Kit Sampson decided to hand back her MBE last week...

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  14. Cavers' foe is the strong, silent type

    Steve Farrar donned his hard hat and joined a scientist who delves into the depths in search of a highly hazardous inhabitant. We blunder into the pocket of gas by accident. The short side passage...

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  15. Making the most of Britain's liquid assets

    At the last Olympics our swimmers floundered but, despite setbacks, today's squad is back among the medal winners. Matthew Baker learns how, in the last of our series Ian Turner, head coach of the...

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