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Hard slog and grunge

Published on
May 19, 2000
Last updated
May 27, 2015

I am sure that the director of finance at Heriot-Watt University is basically right when he says that "the only thing keeping higher education going is academics working their balls off". However, he should have given some credit to the substantial proportion of academics who are working their tits off.

Bella Millet

English department

University of Southampton

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