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  1. Laurie Taylor column

    More complaints about the current rate of pay for acting as external examiners for PhDs - THES , March 16. Lapping speaking. Ah, Gordon. Charles here. Charles Daventry. Uttoxeter. Media Studies....

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  2. Letter: Double take

    Phil Baty's account of the Cambridge debate ("Gamble on PhD double or quits", THES , March 16) implies that awarding two degrees for one thesis would be an innovation. When I became a Cambridge don,...

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  3. Letter: Chemical reaction

    I am pleased to report that senior management here has agreed the necessary funding for term-three teaching in chemistry to proceed as normal, despite my earlier concerns following staff redundancies...

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  4. Letter: No right to appeal

    Strictly speaking, Pauline Foley never had a right of appeal to the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University (Whistleblowers, THES , March 16). The authority to make the final determination had been...

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  5. Letter: Harder work in schools

    I was intrigued to note that "hours worked by university teachers were well in excess of those worked by schoolteachers" ("Scots HE staffing hit by hike in teachers' pay", THES , March 16). As a...

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  6. Letter: Why not Wisconsin? (1)

    I was a member of the team that visited Wisconsin with Sir Howard Newby and Roger Brown. Our agreed report was somewhat less euphoric than your article suggests (Analysis, THES , March 16). While the...

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  7. Letter: Why not Wisconsin? (2)

    Times are difficult at the University of East London ("Cuts loom amid UEL shortfall", THES , March 16), as they are at South Bank and four other universities outside London. All have financial...

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  8. Letter: Why we ploughed a new furrow (1)

    Agricultural colleges have diversified their curriculums to meet the changing needs of the countryside. Indeed, we refer to ourselves as land-based colleges to denote the change ("Merger plan is no...

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  9. Letter: Why we ploughed a new furrow (2)

    The farming industry was already suffering low incomes from BSE before the foot-and-mouth epidemic. Agricultural colleges have mostly responded positively to such changes in the rural economy....

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  10. Letter: Vacillating v-cs (1)

    You and your correspondents are misguided in attacking Universities UK for not choosing one of the four funding options in the Taylor report. If this government can ignore the preferred option of its...

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  11. Letter: Vacillating v-cs (2)

    It beggars belief to read that once again the vice-chancellors have ducked their responsibility to champion the cause of the universities and not least the need for a better basis of funding. Having...

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  12. Leader: Effective sector comes at a cost

    The United Kingdom is better than many industrialised countries at turning university entrants into graduates. The select committee report on student retention finds that only Japan does better. But...

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    #Opinion

  13. Leader: Those who pay the bill want to see the product

    Frank Furedi's surprise at the growing role of parents in higher education will be shared by many in universities whose own parents' job in their college days was to deliver and collect them at the...

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    #Opinion

  15. That son of a bitch who happened to be a genius

    With the Academy Awards season upon us once again, Mamoun Hassan pays tribute to John Ford, America's greatest director. "You cannot contradict your time too flatly and be influential. That is...

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