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  1. Price of pay freedom? 1

    Your report that Imperial College London is being investigated by the Equal Opportunities Commission ("Imperial under fire on equality", THES , August 1) comes a week after Imperial joined the...

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  2. Price of pay freedom? 2

    How sad that Jocelyn Prudence, chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association, should choose to adopt the negotiating style of a 19th-century mill owner ("Universities face...

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  3. Defend degree value

    Peter Williams was right to question UK universities' accreditation of small institutions overseas ("QAA: accreditation 'risky'" THES , August 1). My university has reduced its overseas franchise...

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  4. We're bigger than that 2

    You claim that the University of Manchester will be the UK's biggest university, with an estimated 34,000 students ("Man united hits home straight", THES , August 1) In Anchorage, they upset visiting...

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  5. Get to the bottom of it

    So vice-chancellors have been "seeking to engineer an industrial dispute" ("V-cs accused of stalling on pay offer", THES , July 18). In view of this, and many similar misdemeanours, perhaps a name...

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  6. No mug for moggies

    In reviewing The Character of Cats (Books, THES , August 1), Andrew Kitchener claims that "burying of faeces is a clever ploy to ingratiate cats to us". Much depends on how you define us and your...

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  7. Facts and fiction 1

    While sympathetic to Catherine Belsey's desire to "end the apartheid" between English and cultural studies (Why I, THES , July 18), a more pressing issue might be to discover what fuels it. As a...

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  8. Facts and fiction

    As regards Jonathan Bate's remarks about the role of facts in literary studies ("Navigate the circus of fancy with fact", THES , August 1), as a teacher of English I always believed ("theory"...

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  9. Short-term gain

    According to the Home Office, new fees for visa extensions will save the UK taxpayer £90 million a year, £ million of which will be from students ("Fury over visa extension fee", THES , July 18)....

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  10. Woe betide Blair?

    Tony Blair may have shown historic qualities of leadership during the Iraq crisis comparable with Bismarck in the 1860s ("Blood, iron and creative havoc", THES , July 25). But Blair would do well to...

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  11. Dons' double

    Your arrest photo of Theodore Kaczynski, the "Unabomber", ( THES , August 1) puzzled me, until, studying the sullen eyes, beard and bad hair, I realised he resembled two-thirds of the male academics...

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  12. We're bigger than that 1

    It is insulting to imply, as Susan Segal-Horn does, that Open University associate lecturers are drudges who do academic chores while the "central" academics get on with groundbreaking scholarship (...

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  13. Envisat focuses on carbon-rich peat swamp forest fires

    Paris, 06 Aug 2003 Multiple sensors on ESA's Envisat environmental satellite have been used to peer beneath a vast pall of smoke above tropical Borneo and detect fire hotspots – known to add millions...

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  14. Earth facing a decade long galactic dust storm

    Brussels, 06 Aug 2003 The amount of galactic dust entering the solar system is three times higher than during the 1990s, according to a joint ESA/NASA experiment. Scientists believe that the Sun...

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