Top-up pensions contributions
As an academic approaching retirement in 18 months, I was particularly drawn to Oswald's article. I would strongly support moves to encourage the USS to increase the proportion of salary paid at...
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As a former postgraduate certificate in education FE student at Keele University, I want to warn prospective students about the qualification certificate issued on completion of the course. I...
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Disabled dilemma
Regarding nurse trainees ("Will life improve for nurse trainees?" THES, April 28), one group of diploma nurse trainees is among the worst off. Many nurses have disabilities and operate effectively...
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Top-up pensions contributions
Perhaps it is time for a radical rethink of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (THES, April 18, 21, 28), one that embraces both the concerns of USS chief executive David Chynoweth about stability...
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Top-up pensions contributions
Andrew Oswald ("Richer than you thought", THES, April 14; "The pension millionaire game", April 28) has shown how niggardly our pension providers can be. What is especially galling to those of us who...
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Top-up pensions contributions
I would like to remind you that it is not only academics who are involved in the pension scheme, but also administrative staff such as myself who are on the academically related grades. I would...
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Top-up pensions contributions
John Mitchell (Letters, THES, April 28) seemingly thinks research grant-holders, rather than universities, are "employers" of those whose salaries are funded by the grant. The Association of...
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We must work together for a better future
Academics are concerned that government is trying to control the research agenda. Malcolm Wicks argues for dismantling the barriers of suspicion Some years ago, when I was a researcher on family...
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The power of a profile
English studies must improve its image. It needs prizes, TV slots and publicity, just like science, says Catherine Belsey What is the public standing of English studies? Not all that high, I suspect...
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Why I ......think employers should recruit Oxbridge graduates
Oxbridgejobs.com is the first niche "online" recruitment agency. We are matching the highest quality graduates with the highest calibre jobs. Eighty per cent of Oxbridge students enter university...
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Cutting edge
Research into prion proteins suggests how the spongiform encephalopathies, such as BSE, become pathogenic One beneficial outcome of the BSE saga has been the re-emergence of interest in the...
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SA tightens its grip on ethics
Scandal over falsified breast cancer trial results has led to new ethical guidelines for researchers. Karen MacGregor reports from Durban South Africa is to monitor medical research more carefully to...
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Australian medicine given some northern exposure
The new James Cook medical school in Northern Queensland is bringingdoctors to under-represented regions and focusing on the health problems of its Aboriginal population. Julia Hinde reports from...
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Puffin birds are master builders
The puffin has been revealed as one of the master builders of the bird world. Research in Shetland by a team from the Institute for Oceanography in Kiel, Germany, has found burrows dug by the seabird...
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Meteorite turned Mexico to mush
The meteorite that punctuated the age of the dinosaurs would have transformed a vast region of the Yucatan Peninsula into a seething fluid of pulverised rock, computer simulations have suggested....