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  1. Bain's basics for smooth university operators

    As George Bain prepares to bid a fond farewell to academe, he offers university vice-chancellors some hints to help them survive the pressures of the role - but do as he says, not as he does We have...

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  2. West breaks eastern promise 1

    In the US, and increasingly on the Continent, a university that does not have offerings on China, Japan and Korea would not be seen as top rank. In the UK, we simply allow these subjects to wither...

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  3. West breaks eastern promise 2

    Tim Barrett suggests that unique specialist knowledge on contemporary Uyghur separatism in Chinese Central Asia will simply "disappear" after recent cuts at Durham University ("Asian studies cuts may...

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  4. Price of pay freedom? 1

    Your report that Imperial College London is being investigated by the Equal Opportunities Commission ("Imperial under fire on equality", THES , August 1) comes a week after Imperial joined the...

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  5. Price of pay freedom? 2

    How sad that Jocelyn Prudence, chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association, should choose to adopt the negotiating style of a 19th-century mill owner ("Universities face...

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  6. Defend degree value

    Peter Williams was right to question UK universities' accreditation of small institutions overseas ("QAA: accreditation 'risky'" THES , August 1). My university has reduced its overseas franchise...

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  7. We're bigger than that 2

    You claim that the University of Manchester will be the UK's biggest university, with an estimated 34,000 students ("Man united hits home straight", THES , August 1) In Anchorage, they upset visiting...

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  8. Get to the bottom of it

    So vice-chancellors have been "seeking to engineer an industrial dispute" ("V-cs accused of stalling on pay offer", THES , July 18). In view of this, and many similar misdemeanours, perhaps a name...

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  9. No mug for moggies

    In reviewing The Character of Cats (Books, THES , August 1), Andrew Kitchener claims that "burying of faeces is a clever ploy to ingratiate cats to us". Much depends on how you define us and your...

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  10. Facts and fiction 1

    While sympathetic to Catherine Belsey's desire to "end the apartheid" between English and cultural studies (Why I, THES , July 18), a more pressing issue might be to discover what fuels it. As a...

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  11. Facts and fiction

    As regards Jonathan Bate's remarks about the role of facts in literary studies ("Navigate the circus of fancy with fact", THES , August 1), as a teacher of English I always believed ("theory"...

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  12. Short-term gain

    According to the Home Office, new fees for visa extensions will save the UK taxpayer £90 million a year, £ million of which will be from students ("Fury over visa extension fee", THES , July 18)....

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  13. Woe betide Blair?

    Tony Blair may have shown historic qualities of leadership during the Iraq crisis comparable with Bismarck in the 1860s ("Blood, iron and creative havoc", THES , July 25). But Blair would do well to...

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  14. Dons' double

    Your arrest photo of Theodore Kaczynski, the "Unabomber", ( THES , August 1) puzzled me, until, studying the sullen eyes, beard and bad hair, I realised he resembled two-thirds of the male academics...

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  15. We're bigger than that 1

    It is insulting to imply, as Susan Segal-Horn does, that Open University associate lecturers are drudges who do academic chores while the "central" academics get on with groundbreaking scholarship (...

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