Pay and unity 1
Alasdair Smith, chair of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association, wrote about the 2006 pay agreement (Letters, August 3) noting that "the agreement is for three years and has no clause...
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Pay and unity 2
Gavin Reid's comments (Letters, August 3) demonstrate only too well that there are still voices in the University and College Union that believe splendid isolation is the answer to their troubles....
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Beliefs on trial
Julian Baggini tells us that the French philosopher Michel Onfray is an "individualist" ("Sacre bleu", features, August 3), yet his views on religion seem utterly conformist, echoing those of other...
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Noise has its place
As a serial offender in the commission of various auditory crimes, I confess that I was moved to ask for sundry instances to be taken into consideration on reading Stuart Sim's indictment of " le...
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An isolated critic
Your article "Cheers and jeers for league table" (August 3) refers to a range of opinion on The Good University Guide, the new interactive guide to UK universities. Michael Thorne, the only strident...
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Not so elite after all
Amanda Root is a little too cavalier with the facts ("The choice is there - but not for everyone", Features, August 3). Laura Spence was interviewed for a place at Oxford University; she lost out to...
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Throughout all the ages
A Natural History of Time
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Basic data-mining tips for PhD computer-phobes
Organizing and Managing Your Research
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Leading light's past life still in the shadows
Ho Chi Minh
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Monkey about with a hunt-and-peck history
The Iron Whim
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Zoom in on the red giants and Red Peril
The Telescope
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Tomb with a view concealing uncanny secrets of the gods
The Great Pyramid
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Why the criminals came for the corpse of the Great Emancipator
Stealing Lincoln's Body
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A better life, or just hubris?
The Case against Perfection
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a recipient of the Gold Medal in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: "...