Year of the Welsh dragon
University of South Wales is a behemoth with plans to become even bigger
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Half of theses fail to show how they advance to knowledge
Many doctoral candidates do not make clear their work鈥檚 scholarly contribution
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Ding dong: impact 'chaos' lurks on the doorstep
Paul Manners worries that rush to tell research stories turns academics into salesmen and undermines collaboration
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News in brief - 18 April 2013
European Access NetworkWorld-widening participation aidA global network of students, academics, politicians and business leaders has been launched with the aim of promoting access to university for...
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News in brief - 18 April 2013
New ZealandVictory for VictoriaVictoria University of Wellington has claimed the top spot among New Zealand鈥檚 institutions in the research rankings released by the country鈥檚 Tertiary Education...
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Gelmini law's an ass: EU, please use bridle
Thank you for shedding much-needed light on the situation of the lettori (鈥溾楻ace law鈥 cited while pay for lettori is cut in half鈥, News, 11 April). I am one of the teachers just hit by the 50 per...
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Iron emancipator
Sir Peter Scott鈥檚 and John Akker鈥檚 wholly dismal view of Margaret Thatcher鈥檚 impact on the sector (鈥淪plit persists on Thatcher legacy鈥, 11 April) may not be shared by all those who were working in UK...
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Charter flight to equality
Despite the diligent work of many higher education institutions and sector organisations, including the Equality Challenge Unit, systemic discrimination on the grounds of race persists in the academy...
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State-sanctioned inequality
Your comprehensive coverage of the 鈥渨ealth check鈥 of UK higher education institutions highlights the blindingly obvious: namely, that there is increasing institutional inequality across the system (鈥...
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Simple plan far too simple
I was not at the conference at which 鈥渆xpert鈥 Tom Green made his remarks about university marketing, so perhaps I missed the insights from which his recommendations were derived (鈥淢essage received:...
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Right-sided spooks
I thank Matthew Feldman for his generally positive review of my book British Writers and MI5 Surveillance, 1930-1960 (Books, 4 April), but certain areas require correction. For one, he is inaccurate...
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Correlation limitations
The fact that at the institutional level, total quality-related (QR) cash from the Higher Education Funding Council for England and total research council funding are highly correlated is neither new...
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Peer performance
Further to the article by Alan Ryan (鈥淭he best of the lot鈥, Opinion, 28 March): isn鈥檛 he describing the House of Lords as was? A random selection of the good, the bad and the indifferent - with peers...
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Middle class? Moi?
Source: AlamyClass acts: a little taste of the finer thingsNew research findings from Dr Nicola Ingram of the University of Bath show that some middle-class students at the post-1992 University of...
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Campus round-up - 18 April 2013
Source: ReutersPeak performance in aid of breath of lifeScientists at a UK university are working in one of the harshest environments on Earth to further vital research into the effects of low oxygen...