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  1. Rights and rungs of promotion (1)

    I am sure that Susan Bassnett's contribution to your How to Get Promoted booklet (November 19) was intended to be supportive of academic staff on fixed-term contracts. It was, however, very...

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  2. Rights and rungs of promotion (2)

    Missing from your booklet on getting promoted is any mention of the fact that promotion based on prejudice, patronage or privilege is unlawful. Under the Education Reform Act 1988, universities have...

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  3. Falling standards? (1)

    We disagree with Luton vice-chancellor Les Ebdon's assertion that Luton University would not compromise its academic standards ("Caught in vicious cycle of declining standards", November 19). When we...

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  4. Falling standards? (2)

    "Save our standards", you say (Leader, November 19). But what standards? Who decides these but a consensus of academia's Great and Good, relative to an ideology/world-view: that is, a ruling theory...

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  5. Falling standards? (3)

    Your poll on declining standards concerns me for two reasons ("Poll reveals pressure to dumb down", November 19). First, the article seems to imply that only well-qualified school leavers are...

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  6. A place for bullies

    The culture of bullying described in "Bullying made me feel suicidal" (Soapbox, November 5) is directly linked to the institutional transformation of British universities in the past two decades. The...

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  7. Essential ethics

    The debate about ethical oversight of research in the social sciences seems to be becoming unnecessarily polarised (Letters, November 12). Surely we have nothing to fear from procedures that require...

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  8. Just Jacques

    Your articles on Jacques Derrida (Features, November 12) focused on his intellectual achievements. Yet he deserves to be remembered as a passionate champion of the oppressed and abused, human and...

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  9. Facing the F-word

    Congratulations on at last mentioning the F-word ("Top-up failures could go broke", November 19). As Roger Brown notes in the latest Higher Education Review , as many as half the present university...

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  10. Long-term trends

    I totally agree with John Schellnhuber (People, November 12) that a better understanding of possible thresholds in the climate system beyond which rapid, damaging changes may occur is absolutely...

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  11. Royally confused

    The comment made by Charles Clarke, Education Secretary, that Prince Charles doesn't know what is going on in British education should not surprise anyone. Given the ever-moving "goalposts", most of...

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  12. Rhetoric hits home

    I never thought I could ever buy into George W. Bush's petty rhetoric on old and new worlds. But Cambridge University's approach to its struggling department of architecture makes me wonder. After...

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  13. Hail email

    Of course, we all empathise with Tim Birkhead in his piece on the scourge of email (Working Knowledge, November 12). However, let us not forget that it deserves great credit for silencing that other...

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  14. Bonkers or ahead of the game?

    For up to £2,000 a day, consultants advise on anything from stress to staff, but do universities need them or are they a waste of money, asks Harriet Swain When Newcastle University was preparing its...

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