Necessity, not a luxury
Postgraduate education in the UK faces unprecedented challenges (鈥溾楶ostgraduate premium鈥 fuels vicious cycle of social inequality鈥, News, 7 February). There is a crisis in funding and access....
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Hostile witnesses
Might the 鈥渉ostility, sometimes bordering on hatred鈥 that troubles Peter Crisp, chief executive and dean of BPP Law School, be due, at least in part, to public pronouncements made by his predecessors...
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External reassignment
Who would be an external examiner in higher education? At Keele University we are no longer allowed to ask our externals to adjudicate or advise upon final-year undergraduate students who are...
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Sine of confusion
Michael Worton, vice-provost of University College London, notes that an explicit commitment to 鈥渋nterdisciplinarity鈥 will help undergraduates studying its new bachelor鈥檚 of arts and sciences 鈥...
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Payment by results
Surely there is a way to regulate 鈥済rade grubbing鈥 to the benefit of all? (鈥淧lease professor, I want some more鈥, News, 28 February.) An enhanced assessment process could be offered where, for...
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Grant winners - 7 March 2013
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Services and Delivery Research ProgrammeAward winner: Andrew JudgeInstitution: University of OxfordValue: 拢532,390Models of care for the delivery of...
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Post-Arab Spring academic freedom examined at conference in Tunisia
University of Manouba hosts conference as dean Habib Kazdaghli faces trial said to 鈥榣ack merit鈥. Matthew Reisz reports
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News in brief
United StatesIt looks bad - we thinkA preliminary 2014 budget indicates that the governor of Louisiana may cut $200 million (拢133 million) from state university funding. The higher education budget...
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Odds and quads - 7 March 2013
These items come from a few of the nearly 10,000 boxes of archival material that have just been donated by the international development charity Oxfam to the University of Oxford鈥檚 Bodleian Libraries...
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Don鈥檛 let vice-chancellors make every decision, says Portsmouth Business School scholar
Academic proposes 鈥榓nalytic hierarchy process鈥 and more planning to avoid costly mistakes by universities. David Matthews reports
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Campus round-up - 7 March 2013
Beat thatReanimated animal hearts and a series of musical pendulums originally developed for Icelandic singer Bj枚rk are among the exhibits at a university gallery in the Republic of Ireland. The...
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University of Northampton v-c tells sector to 鈥榬eady, fire, aim鈥
Nick Petford urges universities to be less risk-averse in difficult economic times
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Filmspeak: How to Understand Literary Theory by Watching Movies by Edward Tomarken
Philip Kemp wants more substance in the application of literary theory to popular cinema
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Warrior Geeks: How 21st Century Technology Is Changing The Way We Fight and Think About War by Christopher Coker
Steve Redhead on how the increasing sophistication of military technology affects modern warfare
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Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea
Kate Kennedy praises a biography that examines the contradictory aspects of the composer鈥檚 character