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Oxford University dons and senior administrators have backed proposals for a promotions policy that will create hundreds of new professors and readers. A postal ballot of members of the university's congregation on plans to allow any employee to apply for promotion without stipend through a new distinctions committee, found 875 in favour and 595 against. The first titles will be awarded at the beginning of the 1996/97 academic year.