Colin Williams, 1948-2012
Colin Williams was born in Newport in 1948 and, after undergoing several operations for an orthopaedic condition as a child, went on to pursue a brief career in the music industry as a gig promoter,...
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When owners change, keep check on powers (1 of 2)
The news that a private equity group has purchased the private not-for-profit College of Law (The week in higher education, 19 April) raises again the question of whether there should be stricter...
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When owners change, keep check on powers (2 of 2)
Amid all the media coverage of the "sale" of the College of Law, it is worth trying to pin down the issue of degree-awarding powers as the prime concern of the purchaser.The College of Law as a...
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Democratic deficit
The Higher Education Policy Institute report on universities and devolution produced by Tony Bruce ("Price of avoiding the market: your freedom", 19 April) usefully begins an overdue discussion about...
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Metrics, men and mole rats (1 of 3)
The story "Restructuring metrics could fail to add up" (19 April) highlights the pernicious atmosphere pervading universities that aim to improve their research standing. Does this ever work? Not if...
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Metrics, men and mole rats (2 of 3)
The School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London displays the Athena Swan Bronze Award on its website, demonstrating its commitment to the advancement of women in...
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Metrics, men and mole rats (3 of 3)
Biological sciences at Queen Mary is a hub for photosynthesis and aquatic research. Beyond model organisms (yeast, Drosophila, zebrafish, Arabidopsis), we study locusts, spiders, beetles, ants, bees...
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Free them from the net
Edward Acton's suggestion that international students be removed from net migration figures should be adopted if the UK is to build on one of its strongest exports ("Why so prickly?", 19 April)....
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Fuzzy logic
The article "Sector shuts out external consultants in era of austerity" (5 April) cites Birmingham City University as having spent nothing on external consultants in the past three years. Featuring...
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Market forces turn one-trick ponies into one-stop shops
More traditional US institutions are playing for-profits at their own game by offering short professional courses. Jon Marcus reports
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Appointments
University of BedfordshireJonathan Black-BranchThe new head of the University of Bedfordshire's School of Law believes it is well placed to be a "formidable force in legal education" after recent...
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Campus round-up
Durham UniversityUnrivalled shelf lifeEurope's oldest surviving book is to go on display in Durham after £9 million was raised to buy it for the nation. The St Cuthbert Gospel, a manuscript copy of...
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Albert Nobbs
Alison Oram on a tale of two very different 19th-century women who lived as men: the charming butch and the fragile androgyne
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Leader: It's gone one step beyond
Funding bodies set the impact agenda, but university managers made it into a song and dance that everyone had to follow
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From Where I Sit - New Delhi, we have a problem
How times change. Some five years ago, the buzzword in Indian higher education was expansion. The 2007-12 Five-Year Plan - a mechanism by which, in part, the government formulated its economic policy...