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  1. Powerful images

    What are we to read into the images of two women that appeared in The Times Higher on March 16? Wendy Piatt, director-general of the Russell Group, is seated on a plush leather sofa. Sally Hunt,...

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  2. Permanent payoff 1

    Employment of researchers on open contracts is good news for universities, not just the researchers ("Research joy over rise in job security", March 9). At Birmingham University's School of Education...

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  3. Permanent payoff 2

    Your positive coverage of the reduction in the use of fixed-term contracts for research staff is very welcome. The research councils share the concerns, which have been voiced by many people, about...

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  4. Reshaping retirement

    Age Concern is quite right that the situation regarding mandatory retirement and age discrimination is unacceptable ("Age Concern takes OU to task", March 16). And it is absurd for any organisation...

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  5. The women's room 1

    Alison Wolf (Column, March 16) might like to know that King's College London made special provision for women students well into the last century. Women had their own Union Society and a separate...

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  6. The women's room 2

    The article "It's buy, buy to women. Now the girlies rule" (Features, March 9) contains one glaring error: Buffy the Vampire Slayer's boots were "stylish, yet affordable", not "stylishly unaffordable...

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  7. Democracy's flaw

    Jacques Rancière's arguments about genuine democracy highlight the issue of reconciling it with morality (Features, March 16), If everyone is to have equal political power, that may work if most...

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  8. Avoid the baby blues

    The panel members gave poor advice to the female principal investigator taking maternity leave while holding research grants (Working Knowledge, March 16). Though they advised correctly on the legal...

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  9. Man who never was? 1

    I noted with great interest the appreciation of the importance of the work of the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard in The Times Higher (Opinion, March 16). However, as someone who firmly believes...

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  10. Man who never was? 2

    I was very saddened to learn of the demise of Jean Baudrillard along with the material world. Actually, I did not know he existed - I thought he was just a sign. Brian Morris Goldsmiths, University...

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  12. Leader

    Are conferences worth going to? "No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there," according to F. Scott Fitzgerald. For the most part, academics do not...

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  13. Step into the spotlight

    Organising a conference can boost your department's reputation as well as its coffers. Olga Wojtas reports There was a shuffling of feet and lowering of eyes at the Primate Society of Great Britain...

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  14. Great sites to behold

    Campuses across the country are creating innovative and imaginative venues to meet the demands of clients and delegates. Michael North steps into space It was cabaret tables last year, now it's wi-fi...

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  15. Better safe than sorry

    Heightened security fears mean organisers must consider the impact of visa conditions, immigration policies and personal risks of travel on attendance. Olga Wojtas investigates Last August, the...

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