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Reader's comments (1)

#1 Submitted by DiggingDeeper on June 7, 2022 - 8:12am

drglbo9spirit - do you have a spell to halve my VC's salary? Can you take UK universities back in time to ca. 1988 when we had student grants and academia was all about research, not money? If so you do indeed have the solution to the currewnt HE crisis. Peace and spells, man.

Tenure threatened in US more by universities than politicians

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