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  1. What are you reading?

    A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

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    #What are you reading?

  2. Campus round-up

    Newcastle UniversityFull steam (or wind or sun) aheadScientists from an English university are leading a £3 million European Commission project to revolutionise the way ships harness energy....

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    #News

  3. Off Piste: Truths, lies and Gallic shrugs

    Martin Cohen, a long-term resident of Normandy, presents a gourmet repast of his 11 favourite myths about the French, from barefaced fibs to insouciant self-deception and charming vérité

    #Features
    #Off Piste

  4. The week in higher education

    Credit: Nick Newman•"At my signal, unleash hell" - not David Willetts launching the new fees system, but the most famous line from a Hollywood actor who apparently yearns to work in UK higher...

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    #The week in HE

  5. Insane in the membrane

    Felipe Fernández-Armesto can’t wait to flee the madness infecting the UK

    #Columnists
    #Felipe Fernandez Armesto
    #Opinion

  6. 12 May 2011

    Eyes to the future - How one university has transformed itself for the new market place

  7. THE Scholarly Web

    A weekly roundup of the best on the scholarly web

    #Opinion
    #THE Scholarly Web

  8. Leader: Born again in West London

    As it rebrands and reshapes, Thames Valley, long a byword for failure, might just be on course to outwit more august names

  9. Metric misses the full picture of PhD study (1 of 3)

    Once again the crude metric of a PhD "completion rate" is used to assess quality ("Poor English a key diagnosis for failure to make PhD grade", 5 May).Blinkered uniformity is often sought for...

    #Letters

  10. Metric misses the full picture of PhD study (2 of 3)

    Recruiting international students with a substandard quality of written English is a dilemma that is commonly faced by tutors working in UK higher education.But this crisis is most pronounced in the...

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  11. Metric misses the full picture of PhD study (3 of 3)

    The problem of poor PhD completion rates may not be language proficiency alone. Undergraduate degrees in many Asian and Middle Eastern countries do not adequately prepare students to think critically...

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  12. Whither London Met? (1 of 2)

    Malcolm Gillies, the vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, neatly encapsulates what is wrong with so much of the student-as-consumer model when it is applied to the function of a...

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  13. Whither London Met? (2 of 2)

    I wish to alert readers to how cuts are being imposed on London Metropolitan University's Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Languages and Education (Hale). Of 14 subject areas, only six will remain, in...

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  14. Sophisticated chuckles

    Chris Duke thinks I'm naive to suggest that it is the duty of academia to laugh at government while still taking its money ("Impact joke is on us", Letters, 28 April).But I did not say that we should...

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  15. Ranter's charter

    Congratulations to Fred Inglis on his wonderful parody of Leavisism ("Words as weapons", 5 May). He has perfectly captured its paranoid rhetoric and updated the wilful ignorance of anything F.R....

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