Powerful images
What are we to read into the images of two women that appeared in The Times Higher on March 16? Wendy Piatt, director-general of the Russell Group, is seated on a plush leather sofa. Sally Hunt,...
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Permanent payoff 1
Employment of researchers on open contracts is good news for universities, not just the researchers ("Research joy over rise in job security", March 9). At Birmingham University's School of Education...
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Permanent payoff 2
Your positive coverage of the reduction in the use of fixed-term contracts for research staff is very welcome. The research councils share the concerns, which have been voiced by many people, about...
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Reshaping retirement
Age Concern is quite right that the situation regarding mandatory retirement and age discrimination is unacceptable ("Age Concern takes OU to task", March 16). And it is absurd for any organisation...
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The women's room 1
Alison Wolf (Column, March 16) might like to know that King's College London made special provision for women students well into the last century. Women had their own Union Society and a separate...
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The women's room 2
The article "It's buy, buy to women. Now the girlies rule" (Features, March 9) contains one glaring error: Buffy the Vampire Slayer's boots were "stylish, yet affordable", not "stylishly unaffordable...
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Democracy's flaw
Jacques Rancière's arguments about genuine democracy highlight the issue of reconciling it with morality (Features, March 16), If everyone is to have equal political power, that may work if most...
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Avoid the baby blues
The panel members gave poor advice to the female principal investigator taking maternity leave while holding research grants (Working Knowledge, March 16). Though they advised correctly on the legal...
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Man who never was? 1
I noted with great interest the appreciation of the importance of the work of the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard in The Times Higher (Opinion, March 16). However, as someone who firmly believes...
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Man who never was? 2
I was very saddened to learn of the demise of Jean Baudrillard along with the material world. Actually, I did not know he existed - I thought he was just a sign. Brian Morris Goldsmiths, University...
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Leader: The pitfalls of a non-stop society
Academics seem to be adrift in a perfect storm that guarantees them sleepless nights. It is made up of ever more demanding students, more ruthless managers and technology that makes it hard to escape...
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Leader: Saucy seminars
There may be good reasons why academic conferences tend to be held in Umbria rather than Cumbria, or Athens rather than Aberdeen. For the driven souls who attend them for new scholarly insights,...
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Sci-fi is not really about the science
After being a consultant on a film, Kevin Fong realised plot is more important than facts A couple of years ago, somebody asked me if I'd give a talk to a bunch of actors and a director who were...
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Today's news
Cambridge applications fall as variable fees come in Cambridge University suffered a dramatic drop in applications last year after the introduction of variable tuition fees. While the number applying...
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Today's news
University of Manchester to axe 400 staff Four hundred jobs are to go at the University of Manchester to clear a ?30 million debt, it has emerged. The university admitted that it is looking to make...