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The week in higher education
• Academics and students were united in their outrage at the treatment of protesters doused with pepper spray at the University of California, Davis. The incident on 18 November led to the suspension...
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24 November 2011
Civic spark - What does a university add to a city? A lot more than you might think
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Black hole at heart of star's collapse
Dutch begin documenting top psychologist’s supermassive fraud
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On professors' lack of leadership and logic (1 of 3)
It was with interest we read Jack Grove's article reflecting on Linda Evans' research on professorial leadership ("'Prima donna' professors lambasted for failure to mentor", 17 November). The results...
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On professors' lack of leadership and logic (2 of 3)
I welcome Bruce Macfarlane's call for the better use of emeritus professors ("Command performance", 17 November). My research has shown differences in the experiences of emeritus professors within...
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On professors' lack of leadership and logic (3 of 3)
Bruce Macfarlane writes, "The importance of professors acting as public intellectuals cannot be underestimated." While this statement is probably true, it sits oddly with the rest of his article....
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Wait and see about waivers
Further to your online report on the Association of Law Teachers' annual Lord Upjohn lecture ("For students, fee waivers 'make no sense whatsoever'", timeshighereducation.co.uk, 14 November), it is...
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An unbound global pursuit
Relevance is a tricky concept. Research that will probably prove useful is easy to identify - it fits neatly into a priority area and researchers have done similar work before. However, research is,...
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Fighting in defence of sector
I was pleased to see Sally Hunt's rebuttal ("Fighting the good fight", 10 November) of your recent editorial "Bread, not political poses" (3 November). Especially timely was her reminder that the...
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Professional preparation
Herb Marsh writes in his opinion piece "Help teachers improve their skills or live with the consequences" (10 November): "Universities need to implement programmes to both train and evaluate...
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A place for apprenticeships
David Blanchflower's comments that extra university places should be created to address youth unemployment are short-sighted and naive ("No jobs, so get them on courses", 3 November).He fails to take...
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Willetts forced to abandon Cambridge lecture after protest
David Willetts was forced to call off a lecture yesterday evening after the event he was due to speak at was disrupted by student protesters.
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Regent’s College unveils expansion plans
One of the UK’s biggest private providers has set out bold plans to become a university, more than double in size and takeover or link up with other “complementary institutions” both in Britain and...