TOEFL: tried and tested
I read with interest Karen Harris’ article “Degree-level study without language competency is absurd” (Opinion, 3 July).Harris incorrectly identifies which English language test featured in a recent...
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Stand with Docherty
There has been a series of comments in THE since March about the situation of Thomas Docherty, a professor suspended by the University of Warwick. The comments have been elliptical, because it...
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Boardroom imbalance
The news that Wendy Purcell has been put on leave by Plymouth University’s board of governors is distressing. She has both a national and an international profile and is one of a small cadre of...
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Turn page on prospectuses
Jan Čulik bemoans the tendency of managerialism to stifle eclectic scholarship in the name of practicality and short-term impact, and asks what we might do about it (“Named but not shamed”, Letters,...
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Few regrets for David Willetts
Former universities and science minister reflects on his decisions and the challenges for his successor
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Concerns over new universities and science minister's dual role
Greg Clark will split the position with his current role in charge of cities and growth
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Speaking for others: tensions in post-colonial studies
Lucinda Newns confronts frictions within the discipline and her own unease at a lack of non-white voices
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It’s not raining men in my lab
Researcher at University of Montreal laments the difficulty of recruiting male scientists to her all-female unit
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There is such a thing as bad publicity
On the morning of the publication of last week’s Times Higher Education issue containing an article about the allegedly overly aggressive style of management at Swansea University’s School of...
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The week in higher education - 17 July 2014
One of David Willetts’ final acts as universities and science minister last week was to express “confidence” in the chairman of the Student Loans Company after he offered to resign over graduates...
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University of Liverpool staff to lose pay if online students drop out
Academic claims that pay would be deducted even if students quit Liverpool-Laureate course because of bereavement
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Outreach activity ramped up at dawn of £9,000 fees
Les Ebdon claims fee level has not put off poor students as spending to attract them climbs and admissions rise
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He’s got an analogy!
“A Daniel come to judgement.”That was how Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, responded to the recent declaration by David Browne, an associate in the solicitors’ firm that advises the...
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17 July 2014
Summer reads - THE contributors pick out the books they’ll be packing in their suitcases
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Snowball Metrics: no pinch of salt needed
John Green is the man behind a researcher-led effort to cook up sound institutional comparisons