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  1. This is hardly reassuring

    Anthony McClaran's defence of "educational oversight" ("Oversight is essential", Letters, 6 October) sits uneasily alongside your report "'Visa scam' at college linked to University of Wales" (www....

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  2. New and in tune

    Many traditional universities may be ignoring market trends and thereby endangering their future student numbers ("Exclusive elite fails to attract poorer students", 29 September).The most recent...

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  3. Ouroboros finance

    David Willetts claimed at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester that in future most universities will not need to comply with European Union procurement directives because they will be less...

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  4. In scholarship we trust

    Terence Karran's fascinating article on academic freedom ("Unshackled minds help institutions to conquer the greatest heights", 29 September) is nonetheless missing a crucial concept: trust - trust...

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  5. A pox on all their hustings

    As a current student, a former Liberal Democrat voter and a very vocal critic of the coalition and its plans for higher education (and indeed the rest of the country), I should probably agree with...

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  6. Actions speak louder

    I note that among the candidates aiming to be the University and College Union's general secretary next year, the incumbent is a member of the Labour Party while a well-placed challenger from UCU...

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  7. Highly irritable

    Yvonne H. Howell gives a rightly enthusiastic review of Nikolai Krementsov's A Martian Stranded on Earth: Alexander Bogdanov, Blood Transfusions, and Proletarian Science, his stimulating study of the...

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  8. Story doesn't add up

    So The Australian newspaper reports that two in five academics under 30 wish to leave their jobs, and that for those "between the ages of 30 and 40 the figure is even higher, as much as one in three...

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  9. Oxford v-c urges support for postgrad loan plan

    The vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford has called for "serious consideration" to be given to a proposal for a government-backed loan for taught postgraduate students.

    #Institutions
    #News
    #University of Oxford

  11. Film review: Sleeping Beauty

    The sterile detachment of an alienated half-life gives way to the pain of rebirth, observes Will Brooker

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  12. Michael Costeloe, 1939-2011

    "Infectious enthusiasm" for his subject and skill at spinning a yarn earned Michael Costeloe the respect and admiration of staff and students alike.Born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham on 12 March...

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  14. Appointments

    Washington University in St LouisStephen LegomskyStephen Legomsky, John S. Lehmann university professor at the School of Law at Washington University in St Louis, has been appointed chief counsel for...

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  15. Odds and quads

    In 1894, a young Jewish artillery officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, was convicted of betraying French military secrets to the Germans and sentenced to solitary confinement in French Guiana. It soon...

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