Going to waste
Shame on the University of the Arts London for its po-faced reaction to Ann Plumb鈥檚 ceramic turds (鈥淪catological art difficult to pass鈥, News, 31 July). What would the costive UAL make of the faecal...
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Ceremonial duties
At the University of Portsmouth, where I lecture, all graduands receive two free graduation tickets and pay just 拢10 for extra tickets. But when our younger son graduated from his university recently...
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Hefce鈥檚 supporting role
The report on the Higher Education Funding Council for England鈥檚 role in learning and teaching (鈥溾夆楽uperficial鈥: 拢500m fails to develop class acts鈥, News, 31 July) was commissioned by the Higher...
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Lost in abbreviated history
The disturbances in Ukraine should make us rethink the policy of updating history courses at all levels by bringing the starting points progressively closer to the present. At the moment, the 16th...
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Full-spectrum Israel studies
Charles Keidan鈥檚 article distorts the nature of the growth of Israel studies and the role that my organisation has played in that expansion (鈥淧artial gifts鈥, Opinion, 24鈥疛uly).In the past eight years...
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Innovative collaboration
The engineering skills shortage debate has been raised again as the result of a recent report 鈥 Excellence in Postgraduate Education: Manufacturing, Materials and Design 鈥 published by Cranfield...
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Just what is driving the two-in-one track?
I read with interest the article on integrated degrees, which attempted to throw light on why the qualification has grown in popularity in the past five years (鈥淪urge in popularity of integrated...
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The week in higher education - 7 August 2014
An Australian academic will keep his job after being suspended for describing alleged Twitter trolls as 鈥渟tupid as fuck鈥. The row over Martin Hirst, associate professor of journalism and media at...
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Graduates and the gender pay gap
Women graduating from part-time degrees go on to earn 拢7,500 less on average than their male equivalents, according to new data on higher education leavers
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Overvaluations 鈥榮tifle鈥 university spin-offs
Dame Ann Dowling warns that universities that put too high a price on their intellectual property may hamper a spin-off鈥檚 success
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Rejected work gets back in the line-up
Paper turned down for plagiarising surfaces in another of publisher鈥檚 journals
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University of Gloucestershire鈥檚 joint venture tie-up comes apart
Deal with for-profit firm INTO University Partnerships cancelled due to lack of 鈥榗ommon ground鈥
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Strike action possible over LSE researcher pay
Unions tell university that a resolution is not possible in dispute over new career structures
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Emulate Plato and Steve Jobs, university educators hear
Apple director and Open University v-c tell Universia International Presidents鈥 Meeting 2014 in Brazil to think pedagogy, not technology
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Campus close-up: Bangor University
Welsh institution helps keep the maritime economy afloat as applications remain buoyant