We expected much more
David Willetts, advocate for the arts? Nothing like it, accuses Sally Feldman
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Odds and quads
If this shoe looks good enough to eat that is hardly surprising - it is made of cheese.
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Research intelligence - Let's dig a little deeper
Humanities set to benefit from second round of international digitisation project. Hannah Fearn reports
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The Pick - The Fat Girl Gets a Haircut and Other Stories
Innocence and experience
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From where I sit - High scores in the wrong game
Does the world revolve around world university rankings?I asked myself this question recently when I attended a national seminar on higher education in Serbia. One of the university rectors told me...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
University of OxfordLifeline for languageResearchers are in a race against time to document a dying language that is now spoken by only three people. Suriel Mofu, from the University of Oxford's...
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The week in higher education
A claim that 36,000 student places could be chopped to allow for the additional cost of subsidising tuition fee loans in 2012 prompted a rash of stories about policy chaos on 20 April. Ed Miliband,...
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28 April 2011
Old school - Universities, stuck in the past century, are failing today’s students
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Leader: Wise up to the modern world
To succeed in the 21st century, graduates will need much more than a narrow range of skills offered by an outdated academy
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Keep death studies off the critical list
At a time when non-science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines are campaigning against budgetary cuts, cross-disciplinary research risks being overlooked. Who owns and will...
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Feedback matters
While Thomas Docherty is probably correct in thinking that the "fetishisation" of contact hours glosses over issues relating to the quality of that contact, he does not face up to students' genuine...
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Not enough days in the week
Jon Nixon (Letters, 7 April) asks why we don't see our personal tutees on a weekly basis. He suggests we are too busy researching to do our job as teachers. As a lecturer in a hard-working school...
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Impact joke is on us
Two letters on research impact make for interesting reading ("Corrosive impact merits only dismissal", 14 April). They also suggest that the age of innocence is not dead, and that Times Higher...
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Misleading mechanism
Your article, "Hesa shows student body to be broader and stronger" (7 April), showed Birkbeck, University of London listed among those universities with the highest dropout rates for 2008-09. These...