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Sheffield shines
The University of Sheffield website has been awarded top position in the Yorkshire Website Awards. The website, which serves information to users from 105 countries, took honours in the non-profit...
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Technophobe
(Photograph) - Digital film-makers have the chance to replicate the success of The Blair Witch Project with skills learnt on a course to be launched next month by City University. Blair Witch owed...
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Pensions: preempt the Treasury
Managers of the Univer-sities Superannuation Scheme were right to err on the side of caution in estimating a decade or two ago how well investments would fare to pay staff pensions ("Richer than you...
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Pensions: preempt the Treasury
Andrew Oswald failed to mention in his article the USS's stinginess in its cost-of-living increases. It is enhancing pensions this year by 2.1 per cent, less than academics' pay settlement is likely...
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Pensions: preempt the Treasury
I find Oswald's suggestion that the value of USS pensions be increased an attractive one. As actuaries are by nature conservative, it would be useful to have an actuary's view on the USS's financial...
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Pensions: preempt the Treasury
The USS is bloated with money for two reasons: the unanticipated decline in academic pay has caused a corresponding fall in actuarial liability for the USS, and because whenever a USS member moves to...
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Blessing in disguise
You report an employment tribunal ruling that it constitutes sexual discrimination to make participation in the research assessment exercise a condition of employment because fewer women than men...
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Equality knocks
I am not surprised that Derby was ranked second in the female/ethnic minorities league table ("Stopped by the unsound barrier", THES, April 14). When I arrived here in 1997, I was struck not only by...
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Equality knocks
Professorial figures reflect appointment decisions made ten or even 20 years ago. In my subject area, modern languages, there has been increasing parity of appointment of male and female professors...
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Bad vibes on visas
Your editorial "UK must offer a better experience to foreign students" (THES, April 7) places the fault squarely on universities with one exception, which you choose to call "the visa muddle". On a...
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Penalised part-timer
It is an irony that you published a letter ("Trojan horse needed", THES, April 7) on the day that the Part-time Employees (prevention of less favourable treatment) Regulations 2000 came into force....
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Free to talk or not
Tom Wakeford ("Concern for science", THES, March 24) says that the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council bans scientists it funds from "becoming involved in political controversy on...
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New tests, old results
IQ tests will not help get more working-class kids into university, argues Ken Richardson. Scholastic aptitude tests, used for more than 80 years in the United States to assess the ability of high-...
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Readers' reactions
Gail Kinman reported that 70 per cent of lecturers found their jobs stressful I can genuinely say that there are simply not enough hours in the day to do what I want to do. Trying to meet the demands...