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Ruby Wax is reported to be “seeking to end the stigma surrounding mental health” (HE & me, 30 July). In a similar but more extreme linguistic vein, I have recently heard lay commentators express...
Ruby Wax is reported to be “seeking to end the stigma surrounding mental health” (HE & me, 30 July). In a similar but more extreme linguistic vein, I have recently heard lay commentators express...
I have some difficulty accepting the basic premise that collaborations between businesses and universities fail because academics don’t understand the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (“...
I was encouraged by Sir Keith Burnett’s defence of the importance of international students (“Why are international students so important to our universities?”, Blog, 17 July). Other countries have...
There is an Isaac Asimov short story, Franchise, in which a single person with appropriate characteristics is selected by a computer to represent all the voters in the US, thus saving the trouble and...
It must be a great relief at Swansea University’s School of Management that Nigel Piercy has resigned as dean (The week in higher education, 30 July). But the bigger question is why did the vice-...
Ellie Bothwell is right to draw attention to Alexander and Helen Astin’s intriguing study of the importance of developing niceness in higher education (“Niceness is the route to equality”, News, 30...
You rightly take Michael Gove to task for being besotted by the Russell Group (The week in higher education, 23 July), but you fall into a similar trap in the same issue (“They would walk 500 miles...

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