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  1. Clarity, treachery and silence 2

    If anyone is still confused about the ideology behind Labour's project, they should read "Blair bets all on wooing rebels" ( THES , January 9). Wendy Piatt of the Institute of Public Policy Research...

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  2. Clarity, treachery and silence 3

    I am a lecturer about to be made redundant by an institution that is not overstaffed but is desperately underfunded. In eight months, just under half my department will have left, more than a third...

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  3. Bound only to join in

    The higher education bill will not make decisions of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator legally binding, as you suggest ("Upfront fees ditched as access and complaints are fine-tuned", THES ,...

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  4. Labs in the red

    It is misleading to suggest that "laboratory-based subjects will not lose out" on teaching funding ("Hefce teaching windfall is boost for humanities", THES , January 9). In arriving at the...

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  5. Plumb job?

    I read with interest of the plumber who completed a higher national diploma and a degree and became a university lecturer ("Brave Scots win minds", THES , January 9). I wonder how his/her new role...

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  6. Quality will out 1

    There is no evidence that open access is censoring publication according to ability to pay (Letters, THES , January 9). As Iain Stevenson admits, the publication fee is being waived when authors...

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  7. Quality will out 2

    Many journals owned and published by scientific societies put surpluses generated back into science. The Society for Experimental Biology, which owns the Journal of Experimental Botany and part owns...

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  8. Interview was fair 1

    We utterly reject Dawn Chatty's version of her daughter's account of her interview for a place to read medical sciences at Downing College, Cambridge ("Oxford tutor attacks Cambridge interview", THES...

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  9. Interview was fair 2

    How much do applicants to Oxbridge really miss by rejection? My interviews for Oxford were not that terrifying, but as a mediocre classics student I was taught by people whose style ranged from...

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  10. Trivial pursuits

    Fascinatingly trivial as the life of George Robert Fitzgerald was ("Georgian England saw first 'celebrity'", THES , January 9), the true progenitor of today's B and C-list celebrities was surely John...

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  11. Nottingham bodes ill 1

    The national implications of Nottingham University's pay scheme are immense (Letters, THES , January 9). The new salary scales and performance-related pay divorce academic from academic-related staff...

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  12. Nottingham bodes ill 2

    Nottingham University's claims that its new pay system is based on the proposed national agreement are disingenuous. Nottingham is what industrial relations and pay structures will look like if there...

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  15. Today's news

    Brown backs Blair's plan for top-up fees Chancellor Gordon Brown yesterday offered his emphatic support for Tony Blair's legislation on university fees. In a setback to the revolt against the bill,...

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