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  1. V-c pay: the verdict 1

    Your annual survey of vice-chancellors' salaries ("Unions cry foul over hike in v-cs' pay", February 20) repeats criticism that their 6 per cent average increase is nearly twice the 3.44 per cent...

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  2. V-c pay: the verdict 2

    Older academics can recall a time when the salary of a vice-chancellor was only 30 per cent higher than that of a professor heading a teaching department and many v-cs were distinguished scholars....

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  3. V-c pay: the verdict 3

    It would be interesting to know why some v-cs accepted a pay rise in line with the percentage award to their staff. Was this on economic grounds or are there still a few v-cs for whom the expression...

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  4. V-c pay: the verdict 4

    So Martin Sorell, deputy chairman of governors of London Business School (ranked first in your pay league table), believes that vice-chancellors' salaries reflect market rates for academic talent....

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  5. V-c pay: the verdict 5

    If vice-chancellors' pay rises are based on the need "to attract and reward individuals of sufficient calibre [and] experience", what is Universities UK's position on high-calibre academic staff who...

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  6. RS 'whiff of sexism'

    Mike Rennie (Letters, February 20) misses the point. There is a history of opposition to admitting women to male-dominated societies on grounds other than formal criteria. The threat by some Royal...

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  7. Degrees of separation

    My spouse and I have academic posts at, respectively, the Universite de Bretagne Sud in Vannes, France, and the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand ("Please don go breaking my heart...

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  8. Two out of three is just not enough

    If it's promotion you're after, you need to make your mark in teaching, research and administration, reports Olga Wojtas, while Gerald Mars, with a nod to Francis Cornford, advises his nephew on how...

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  10. Swiss balls expected to make big splash

    In part two of our series tracking how academics are helping the British swimming team prepare for the Olympics, Ben Carlish meets the physiotherapist. As Great Britain's swimming team picks up the...

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  11. Calling the old boys' network

    When it comes to raising cash from alumni, could the UK learn from the US? Tony Tysome and Walter Ellis investigate. Universities in the UK are quickly realising that they are going to have to ask...

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  12. Why bigger is most definitely better

    They say size doesn't matter. But for US universities, to be well endowed is everything. A graph in the student newspaper of Boston's Northeastern University once showed a monstrous erect penis...

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  13. The clock ticks as life follows its own rhythm

    We may be on the threshold of developing drugs that allow us to work at peak levels for 22 hours at a time. Society needs to decide whether to embrace or reject this option, says Russell Foster. We...

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  14. Two out of three is just not enough

    If it's promotion you're after, you need to make your mark in teaching, research and administration, reports Olga Wojtas, while Gerald Mars, with a nod to Francis Cornford, advises his nephew on how...

    #Features