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  1. Senate House Library and the future 2

    I was prompted by the blatant inaccuracies in John Sabapathy's letter "Senate House Library in peril" to seek to put the record straight.The University of London board of trustees on 13 May endorsed...

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  2. Academics on the airwaves

    Matthew Reisz makes a convincing case for public intellectuals ("Listen and learn", 28 May) and his main example, the Reith Lectures, is evidence of the importance of radio for academics.There can be...

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  3. Rebuild housing research

    A great deal is wrong with university research in the UK on housing ("Housing policies 'impose' a middle-class makeover", 28 May).Your report centres on controversy between researchers at Manchester...

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  4. Poetry and politics

    One of the saddest aspects of the messy business over the failure to appoint a professor of poetry at the University of Oxford is that a woman and a black man have "cancelled each other out". This...

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  5. Free speech and freedom

    Writing almost 40 years ago, at a time when free speech and the struggle for liberty in wider society was a reality, Anthony Arblaster commented that "academic freedom" was "a rather pompous term for...

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  6. Facing unpalatable facts

    I was disappointed to see Times Higher Education's record of scholarly reviewing marred by Sian Moore. Her account of Gary Daniels and John McIlroy's edited collection Trade Unions in a Neoliberal...

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  7. Height of practicality

    In his article on dangerous ideas ("A kind of intellectual cancer", 21 May) Alec Ryrie proposes a thought experiment in which he asks "if we found a cheap and effective way to scrub greenhouse gases...

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  8. Dubious statistical merit

    In "Persecution (is) complex" (21 May), you cite a University and College Union survey that placed our university top of a "league table" for staff complaining of bullying. This was based on a mere...

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  9. Comedy double act

    I was surprised to see so much space given to the comments of Roger Brown and Geoffrey Alderman ("Watchdog makes case for a guard with teeth, but will it have the bite?", 28 May), who are beginning...

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  10. Now is the age of the discontented

    The consumer culture has contaminated higher education and student complaints are rising. Some academics, fearing litigation or poor assessment, offer flattery instead of feedback. Frank Furedi...

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  11. They would say that...

    Are academics complicit in the proliferation of conspiracy theories, not least through reluctance to tackle 'truthers' head on? Matthew Reisz writes

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  12. 4 June 2009

    Student complaints: has it all gone too far?