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Leader: In a terrible state o' chassis
A United Kingdom? Not where tuition fees are concerned - and the divergent regimes are causing increasing strains
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Starkey's ignorance is hardly work of history
In David Starkey's regular appearances on BBC's Newsnight, Newsnight Review and Question Time, he is introduced as "the historian, David Starkey", just as Emily Maitlis introduced him on the...
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Sixty-five and out at King's
I am grateful to Times Higher Education for having published and the signatories for having written the letter criticising the determination of King's College London to force age-based retirement...
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The mile is no longer a mile (1 of 2)
I was disappointed to read Ann Mroz's uncritical support of the "four-minute mile" analogy for A-level standards offered by Neil Hopkins, principal of Peter Symonds College in Winchester (Leader, 18...
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The mile is no longer a mile (2 of 2)
Neil Hopkins attributes the continuous improvement in A-level grades to better training. I hope that it is delivered as a supplement to education: my fear is that it is seen as a substitute for it....
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Caring hearts and minds (1 of 2)
Anthea Bain's letter ("No degrees in compassion", 18 August) is yet another depressing diatribe extolling the "good old days" of nursing and demonising current students and newly qualified nurses....
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Caring hearts and minds (2 of 2)
Retired nurses harking back to an imagined golden age of nursing that coincided with their youth need to read some history. The 1960s and 1970s saw episodes of appalling abuse and neglect committed...
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Fair is howl and howl is fair
In response to Katie Alcock's and Alice Bell's wide-ranging discussion of "exam howlers" (Opinion, 11 August), here is a sonnet on the subject (warning: the following poem contains real howlers):I...
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Will students be living the Hi-de-Hi life at Pontins?
Universities employ expensive pro vice-chancellors to oversee the “student experience” and spend hundreds of hours poring over survey results on student satisfaction.
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A fifth of graduate workers earn less than school-leavers
One in five graduates earn less than the average worker educated to A-level standard, new figures show.
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Annual list highlights cultural chasm between scholars and students
They are the internet generation that only remember the presidency of one George Bush and consider dial-up internet “sooooooo last century”.
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Biggest losers in sub-£7.5k auction revealed
The institutions that are set to lose the most student places as a result of plans to auction off 20,000 to cheaper institutions have been identified in a new analysis.
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Inside Higher Ed: Reign of the politician-chancellor
By Kevin Kiley, for Inside Higher Ed