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  1. Leader: Help the union to avoid last orders

    The National Union of Students holds its annual conference next week with top-up fees naturally uppermost among the concerns of delegates. There will even be a day's break in the proceedings while...

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  2. Leader: Promise must be kept

    When even the prime minister acknowledges an £8 billion funding gap in higher education, it may seem craven to celebrate a budget that guarantees no more than a standstill in state funding per...

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  3. Don't ignore unhappy students

    Assessing student performance in examinations based on the content of lectures should be straightforward, but if universities adjust marks when things go wrong, a lack of transparency can leave...

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  4. Testing times 1

    Rawaa ("Animal tests 'upsetting but important'", March 19) is a young scientist who believes her experiments on rats are relevant to humans. As she progresses, however, she will discover that an...

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  5. Testing times 2

    Using a photograph of an attractive female undergraduate of African origin to expound the importance of animal testing is more of an infomercial than real news. Rawaa participates in a video made by...

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  6. Fraught fortnight?

    Surely two weeks is long enough to pen two pages ("Scientists given 2 weeks to plan 10-year vision", March 19)? Any scientist who has not been thinking about this for ages, and cannot write it in two...

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  7. Back to Poppleton! 1

    Laurie Taylor's view of York University sociology department is misleading ("Farewell to 'cuddly' ethos of yesteryear", March 19). Taylor implies that younger staff are on fixed-term contracts and...

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  8. Back to Poppleton! 2

    Laurie Taylor is right: things have moved on since he took his "lump sum" in 1995. We work under research and teaching pressures largely absent in previous generations and his account of our...

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  9. Back to Poppleton! 3

    If all of York University's sociologists shared Laurie Taylor's elitist views of social policy in the 1970s and 1980s, no wonder there was a schism in his department. Social policy research is...

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  10. Back to Poppleton! 4

    I was disappointed to find Laurie Taylor making fun of feminist research by singling out my presentation for the British Sociological Association conference "Wax, pluck or thread: Normalising hair...

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  11. Vocation, vocation 1

    Michael Driscoll, Middlesex University vice-chancellor, says the only way the government will get people to take foundation degrees will be to restrict places on full-time degree courses ("Students...

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  12. Vocation, vocation 2

    Regardless of government funding, the decision to spend a gap-year doing voluntary work reaps rewards in the long term ("Cash for gap-year volunteers", March 19). Such students gain in maturity and...

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  13. Short on bright ideas

    How is the government helping young researchers on short-term contracts move to permanent positions? By introducing more short-term contracts in the shape of five-year fellowships (News in brief,...

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  14. Honest pay, please

    G. R. Berridge (Letters, March 19) exemplifies woolly thinking over lecturers and pay. The basic relationship between institution, staff and students is economic. No one offers their academic or...

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  15. Sleep soundly

    Your article on bedsharing, "Sleep easy with your baby right beside you" (March 12), is misleading. In selectively reporting what the Department of Health has included in an advice leaflet, you fail...

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