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  7. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is froma novel by a 20th-century chronicler of the upper-middle class: "I was sitting in the Guards' Chapel...

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  8. Laurie Taylor column

    It's enough to make one a socialist again, isn't it? What's that? All that research done by The Times Higher that shows that students from poor backgrounds stand less chance of securing a place in...

    #Laurie

  9. Leader: Scots merger will raise key issues

    Scotland has often been a trendsetter for UK education, and the furore surrounding the proposed merger of its further and higher education funding councils is no exception. The English system may be...

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    #Opinion

  10. Leader: Old system has merits

    For almost a decade, there has been a consensus of sorts among academics that the traditional UK degree classifications have outlasted their usefulness. Only inertia and employers' insistence that no...

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  11. Don't let bill criminalise research

    The Council of Heads of Medical Schools shares the concerns that have been widely expressed about the human tissue bill ("Fears on tissue bill 'are ignored'", April 30). The CHMS strongly supports...

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  12. Contract contretemps 1

    We at lecturers' union Natfhe were surprised to read the letter from Roderick Floud, president of London Metropolitan University, ("Facts over fears", April 30), on the looming dispute over his...

    #Letters

  13. Contract contretemps 2

    Roderick Floud is mistaken in believing that staff of the former London Guildhall merely fear unreasonable management from London Met. The letters threatening dismissal if they refuse to move to a...

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  14. Contract contretemps 3

    Roderick Floud's letter omits some facts and misrepresents others. He omits the fact that in July 2002 he told trade union representatives that the "default contract" for academic staff at London Met...

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  15. PhDs in poverty

    So rising numbers of Australian students depend on food handouts ("Students forced to live on charity", April 30)? While I sympathise with impoverished undergraduates around the world, I would point...

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