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  1. To silence racism or let it speak 4

    Racism needs to be confronted wherever it rears its ugly head and this, I believe, is best done through the public repudiation of racist views and an examination of the intellectual context that...

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  2. Low pay, high morals 1

    While I certainly agree that the attempted exclusion of union representatives from the pay negotiations on March 28 makes no sense, I find it much harder to see how the Universities and Colleges...

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  3. Low pay, high morals 2

    Contrary to what Matt Grainger writes, the unions have not said that academic salaries have declined by 40 per cent in real terms (that is, compared with the retail prices index) over the past 20...

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  4. Low pay, high morals 3

    Applying the principle of equal pay for work of equal value, if the job evaluation scheme being used at Westminster University is applied to the vice-chancellor and the pay spine is extended upwards...

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  5. Low pay, high morals 4

    While I agree with the general thrust of Lewis Elton's argument ("Some dumb insolence might get their ear", March 24), I suspect that administrators and bureaucrats in UK universities will view it as...

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  6. Skilled workers 1

    Frank Furedi ("Soft focus skews the perspective", March 10) confuses the issue of key skills with the demand for higher level skills in the economy, which is the real agenda confronting universities...

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  7. Skilled workers 2

    Shadow Aviation and Shipping Minister Julian Brazier worries that some graduates "settle into jobs for which a university degree has little value" (News, March 17). Does he not realise that people...

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  8. Active promotion

    Presumably, Slavoj Žiyžek's thesis (Features, March 24) that "the threat today is not passivity but pseudo-activity, the urge to 'be active' to mask the Nothingness of what goes on" includes the...

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  9. Polite request 1

    The article "Shameless students put tutors in e-mail hell" (March 24) is correct in noting the increased informality with which students associate and communicate with university staff. While I...

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  10. Polite request 2

    The piece about students bombarding lecturers with e-mails implies that asking for feedback on exams is outrageous. A-level students are able to see their marked exam scripts. Why we can't have a...

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  11. Fired up or wired up?

    I was wondering whether Terry Eagleton in "Your thoughts are no longer worth a penny" (March 10) was using his tongue (in cheek) or reflecting while scratching his head with a rusty razor? Is the...

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  12. Testing times

    Animal testing lies at the heart of the recent clinical disaster ("Clinical trials and tribulations", March 23). The first stage of animal experimentation served only to fill heads with a mass of...

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  13. When is a neocon not a neocon?

    Francis Fukuyama has cut all ties with the ideology of his past. Stephen Phillips asks why his relationship with the Right has soured. Francis Fukuyama's critique of the neoconservative ideology that...

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  15. Pioneer tries to turn Aids tide

    Scarlett Epstein thinks her controversial research on local mores can help ward off Papua New Guinea's greatest threat. Anne Sebba meets her. In the hallway of Scarlett Epstein's Brighton flat, there...

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