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  1. Boycott betrayal 2

    Is it Robert Lockie's view that the oppression of the Palestinian people is not "a matter of real importance" or that an academic union should not concern itself with "complex moral" matters (Letters...

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  2. Dispute disputed

    You misrepresented Natfhe-Westminster relations ("Local union row threatens national talks", THES , May 24). The now-resolved dispute referred to was local and had no bearing on national negotiations...

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  3. 'Failing'? Not us, insists Abertay 1

    It is nonsense to suggest that Abertay University is "failing", is on a Quality Assurance Agency "critical list" and the Scottish ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council is poised to "intervene" ("Abertay...

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  4. 'Failing'? Not us, insists Abertay 2

    I made a conscious decision to leave an older university to set up a research centre at the University of Abertay. I have been impressed by the QAA process and by the innovative staff with whom I...

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  5. 'Failing'? Not us, insists Abertay 3

    If I am to believe your article, I work for a "failing" university that is on a "critical list". All because of some very specific adverse comments in a QAA review. Recent reviews of engineering and...

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  6. Wages for sages 1

    I totally agree with Alan Ryan ("Why I...", THES , May 31). No rational person would become an academic in Britain given the remuneration. I recently saw advertised a postdoctoral position based in...

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  7. Wages for sages 2

    Alan Ryan sensibly suggests that "British academic life has become unviable". On other pages, the School of Oriental and African Studies advertises for a director of a project on endangered languages...

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  8. Wages for sages 3

    As an admirer of your former editor, I enjoyed the front-page suggestion that she and I might non-accidentally have left our jobs simultaneously ("Ryan quits", THES , May 31). Still, it's funny to...

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  9. Collegiate claims

    As a humble FE lecturer I hesitate to take issue with Lord Briggs's elegant review of volume VII of The History of the University Oxford (Books, THES , May 31). There may, however, be one minor...

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  10. Figures of speech

    Many statistics quoted by senior public figures on the proportion of students receiving local education authority support for tuition fees are based on estimates rather than on actual figures. We...

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  11. So what are they for? 1

    I agree with Andrew Oswald that Britain needs independent universities, but not that "real universities are research institutions... and not, repeat not, primarily places of teaching" (Soapbox, THES...

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  12. So what are they for? 2

    Andrew Oswald's view that universities are not primarily places for students will bewilder funding councils, most academics and the hordes of young people on campuses who are wandering around under...

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  14. Invitations for gifted cousins

    Mandy Garner meets an organiser of a literary festival with ambitious goals. Michael Schmidt is a bit of an internationalist. Born in Mexico, he has been running Carcanet press, the literary...

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  15. A 5-1 win and the islands are theirs

    Football, foot-and-mouth and the Falklands - English-Argentine relations have been rife with conflict for 35 years. Klaus Dodds takes a look at foul play on and off the pitch. At 12.30pm today,...

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