For vocational holes, a bit of poly may be the right filler
MP and historian Tristram Hunt tells John Morgan about reviving lost skills and improving teaching
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Seals culled: symbolic shift signals rise of the market
But losing the owls from university brands may not be such a wise move. Matthew Reisz reports
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'Of' is off - official
"This really is the big one!"That was how Roger Placement, our Deputy Director of Logo Development, described the fundamental shift in university nomenclature that will be introduced to all our...
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Rash arguments for an Ivy League future
Terence Kealey's argument that because of the prestige of the US Ivy League institutions, our most selective universities should emulate them by forswearing direct state funding for teaching is wrong...
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Administrative errors (1 of 2)
Regarding Sir Richard J. Evans' opinion piece about the disastrous royal visit to the University of Stirling in 1972 ("A right royal rumpus", 11 October): Lord Wheatley was the chairman of Stirling's...
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Administrative errors (2 of 2)
My late colleague John (Jackie) McKie hit the headlines "toasting" the Queen during the latter's visit to Stirling in 1972, yet it would be a pity if that incident were to constitute his sole epitaph...
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Mass engagement
Within just a few months, the term "Mooc" (massive open online courses) has jumped from one used by online-learning cognoscenti to the stuff of Times Higher Education opinion pieces by Alan Ryan ("...
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Unfair comparisons
Having recently observed at close hand the stress placed upon one student studying the International Baccalaureate and seeking admission to a University of Cambridge college, I would advise state-...
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Don't you forget about us
The introduction of a master's in public policy at the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government ("Candidates, follow our curriculum and prepare for global government", 11 October) is...
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Dysfunctional illiteracy
As some newly arrived students filed out of a lecture theatre recently, I overheard one plaintive youngster declare that she was going to struggle with the module because she "was not very good at...
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European mobility plans 'not radical enough'
Lords call for more study abroad
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Declining investment could trigger irreversible loss of British prestige
Russell Group chair issues warning over threat to ‘hard-won eminence’. John Morgan reports
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Research Intelligence - For answers, they may need some time
The head of a study of a subglacial Antarctic lake tells Elizabeth Gibney of the need for the long view
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The week in higher education
• A Guardian feature on the Conservative Party conference trumpeted the "return of the Nasty Party" on 11 October. One anonymous delegate told the newspaper that he might leave the party over David...