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  1. £52m boost for higher education innovation

    London, 18 May 2006 Targeting the early signs of disease, boosting the number of entrepreneurs, and getting UK creative industries into China are some of the award winning projects sharing in &...

  2. Today's news

    Intimidation fears prompt firm to quit university A major contractor has withdrawn from working for Oxford University because of fears of harassment and intimidation by animal rights extremists, it...

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  3. Laurie Taylor Column

    " V-cs start to dock pay " - The Times Higher, May 12 University of Poppleton From: The Office of the President (formerly vice-chancellor) Subject: Salary deductions As I have explained in my nine...

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  4. Felipe Fernández-Armesto

    I once had a teacher whose special field was, he said, "English history, September 1 to 10, 1752". Those were the days that disappeared when Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar. I decided that...

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  5. Leader: Time for the rank and file to decide

    Now that the outside world has discovered the higher education pay dispute, Reaction has been divided between moral outrage at the impact on students and an assumption that the impasse is the result...

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  6. Leader: Calling in the experts

    Outsourcing is always regarded with suspicion in the public services. Private providers are assumed to be cutting corners to make a profit from work done more knowledgeably and conscientiously in-...

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  7. Is honesty a policy that pays off? 1

    It would seem that truth is no longer a quality to be pursued, as illustrated by the case of Erik Ringmar and his talk at the London School of Economics open day ("Open day talk brings job to a close...

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  8. Is honesty a policy that pays off? 2

    Erik Ringmar is to be admired for his honesty in informing prospective London School of Economics students that they can expect to be taught by PhD students and not by the experts in their field of...

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  9. Is honesty a policy that pays off? 3

    That university teaching staff are poorly paid is widely recognised. In comparison with, say, teachers or medical staff of comparable skill, and even firefighters or train drivers, salaries are low....

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  10. Is honesty a policy that pays off? 4

    The comparison of academics' salaries with those of other professionals is welcome. But in this, and the story "V-cs start to dock pay" (May 12), you follow the Universities and Colleges Employers'...

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  11. All sides of the debate 1

    Chaminda Jayanetti's opinion article ("Neither pay nor morale will improve if you give in", May 12) is woefully wide of the mark in all aspects but one - that he is in a shrinking minority of...

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  12. All sides of the debate 2

    Students at Exeter University's Students' Guild annual general meeting defeated a motion that proposed having the entire student body vote on the AUT's assessment boycott and what the Student Guild...

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  13. All sides of the debate 3

    Prudence has been a quality singularly lacking in the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association's actions in the pay dispute ("V-cs start to dock pay", May 12). Once it was known that top-up...

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  14. Where are you?

    I was surprised to read Keith Flett's letter about whether academics were around campus or not (May 12). I thought that this kind of thinking disappeared a long time ago. It certainly has in the...

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  15. Switched on to digital

    Fay Weldon tried to write for the web and gave up (Features, May 12). She could consider applying for a place on the online MA in creative writing and new media at De Montfort University, where she...

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