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  1. 'Melbourne model' inflicts paralysis of choice

    An Australian university has made changes to its innovative "new generation" undergraduate curriculum after satisfaction ratings from the first cohort of graduates revealed mixed results.The so-...

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  2. News in Brief

    Knowledge transferThat's the enterprising spiritAcademics will be encouraged to behave more like entrepreneurs with the help of a Dragons' Den star. A series of "boot camp" seminars will advise...

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  4. Oh yes it is: red scare is pure pantomime (1 of 2)

    The University and College Union's national executive committee (NEC) recently confirmed that it is about to conduct five separate ballots in higher and further education institutions over jobs,...

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  5. Oh yes it is: red scare is pure pantomime (2 of 2)

    As the UCU has pointed out, higher education in the UK has recently been beset by a series of problematic developments and it is now considering industrial action. One of the actions taken (or indeed...

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  6. Dread dress rehearsal

    Alastair Hudson suggests that police kettling is explicable as a "massive and premeditated overreaction" designed to provoke violence by raising the tension in enclosed spaces, hence focusing media...

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  7. Elitist pipe dream (1 of 3)

    While Research Councils UK's proposals to concentrate quality-related research funding on centres of established excellence and capacity are defensible, those advocated by David Colquhoun - which...

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  8. Elitist pipe dream (2 of 3)

    Two articles last week - your interview with David Colquhoun and the news story "How the mighty have fallen: impact pilot's unexpected results" - tell contradictory stories.Colquhoun suggests that...

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  9. Elitist pipe dream (3 of 3)

    David Colquhoun's recommendation to concentrate research in elite institutions was illustrated with an image of him smoking a pipe. Clearly research evidence has little impact on his personal...

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  10. Number of ironies (1 of 2)

    There is magnificent irony in Chris Ormell's article "Putting reality back into the equation" (20 January) when he declares that "Mathematics tends to be...misunderstood", as his own profound...

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  11. Number of ironies (2 of 2)

    Chris Ormell makes a number of ridiculous claims, including that pure mathematics is about nothing more than the reification of symbols, and that blind faith among mathematicians is responsible for...

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  12. Plug loans 'haemorrhage'

    More than £200 million in accumulated taxpayer fee subsidy to European Union students studying at UK universities is at risk of being written off if urgent steps are not taken to recover it.A year...

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  13. Rewrites required

    The British Film Institute plans to remove its collection from an accessible site in central London to its archive store in Berkhamsted - with no public transport running between the archive and the...

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