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  1. Make the public part of science

    Your report of the chancellor's breakfast meeting about science ("Image dogs UK science, say leaders", March 5) disappointed and saddened me. It is not true that there is a growing anti-science...

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  2. No feud over CJD goal

    An over-simplistic view of a difficult scientific challenge was portrayed by your article "'Bitter' feud stalls hunt for CJD cure" (March 5). The piece portrays the complex task of coordinating...

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  3. Braziers are coming

    Your correspondent claims (March 5) that the Association of University Teachers picket lines do not need traditional labour movement braziers. Indeed, but give it time. An extended period of new...

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  4. Scandalous statistics

    I think Graham Allen simply mispoke (Soapbox, February ) - but it certainly isn't true that the proportion of working-class children entering higher education has been a "static and scandalous" 20...

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  5. Fluffy over Buffy

    Although I love the strange field of Buffy studies, which combines two of my hobbies - watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and reading academic literature for pleasure - I can understand why a Times...

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  6. Pay differentials 1

    John Lauwerys (Letters, February ) is absolutely right to remind us that comparisons in average percentage salary increases between vice-chancellors and academic staff are often misleading. It is...

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  7. Pay differentials 2

    Unlike the head of the Russell Group, I fail to see why it is inevitable that "a lecturer in engineering" should "command a different salary from a lecturer in history, even within the same...

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  8. Pay differentials 3

    Andrée Grau asks how magnanimous is a gift of £4,000 from a vice-chancellor's salary of £181,000 (Letters, February ). With tax relief, the gift represents 2.8 per cent of total income, and since the...

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  9. Stifled by regulation

    In his comments about the accountability of researchers (Letters, March 5), Woody Caan implies that the only researchers concerned about hyperregulation are those with a commercial interest. Had he...

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  10. Spreadsheet tragedy

    The University of East Anglia's proposal to close down drama, linguistics and modern languages is yet another example of the direction in which universities are heading, putting spreadsheets above...

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  11. The right's hijack of US science

    Top scientists are alarmed by the willingness of the Bush regime - which deems a man who prescribes Bible study for premenstrual tension an expert on birth control - to place ideology above impartial...

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  13. Spring in Paris, and revolution's in the air again

    France's intellectuals have gone to war against the government. Jennifer Wallace reports. If you ask any wistful romantic about his image of the French intellectual, he will probably paint you a...

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  14. Sleep easy with your baby right beside you

    Prompted by a Lancet report, the press told parents that sleeping with a newborn raises its risk of cot death - when nothing could be further from the truth, says Ayala Ochert. Parents who bring...

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  15. Thin gruel of cliche will never win votes

    In refashioning the Tory Party, Michael Howard should look to its most durable leader - the 14th earl of Derby, argues John Charmley. The recent statement by Conservative leader Michael Howard of his...

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