Consider the alternative
Having read “Universities pull out of EU’s ‘unjustifiable’ U- Multirank” (News, 7 February), I scanned the Times Higher Education archive and was surprised to find almost universally negative reports...
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Necessity, not a luxury
Postgraduate education in the UK faces unprecedented challenges (“‘Postgraduate premium’ fuels vicious cycle of social inequality”, News, 7 February). There is a crisis in funding and access....
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Hostile witnesses
Might the “hostility, sometimes bordering on hatred” that troubles Peter Crisp, chief executive and dean of BPP Law School, be due, at least in part, to public pronouncements made by his predecessors...
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External reassignment
Who would be an external examiner in higher education? At Keele University we are no longer allowed to ask our externals to adjudicate or advise upon final-year undergraduate students who are...
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Sine of confusion
Michael Worton, vice-provost of University College London, notes that an explicit commitment to “interdisciplinarity” will help undergraduates studying its new bachelor’s of arts and sciences “...
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Payment by results
Surely there is a way to regulate “grade grubbing” to the benefit of all? (“Please professor, I want some more”, News, 28 February.) An enhanced assessment process could be offered where, for...
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Grant winners - 7 March 2013
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Services and Delivery Research ProgrammeAward winner: Andrew JudgeInstitution: University of OxfordValue: £532,390Models of care for the delivery of...
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Post-Arab Spring academic freedom examined at conference in Tunisia
University of Manouba hosts conference as dean Habib Kazdaghli faces trial said to ‘lack merit’. Matthew Reisz reports
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News in brief
United StatesIt looks bad - we thinkA preliminary 2014 budget indicates that the governor of Louisiana may cut $200 million (£133 million) from state university funding. The higher education budget...
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Odds and quads - 7 March 2013
These items come from a few of the nearly 10,000 boxes of archival material that have just been donated by the international development charity Oxfam to the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries...
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Don’t let vice-chancellors make every decision, says Portsmouth Business School scholar
Academic proposes ‘analytic hierarchy process’ and more planning to avoid costly mistakes by universities. David Matthews reports
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Campus round-up - 7 March 2013
Beat thatReanimated animal hearts and a series of musical pendulums originally developed for Icelandic singer Björk are among the exhibits at a university gallery in the Republic of Ireland. The...
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University of Northampton v-c tells sector to ‘ready, fire, aim’
Nick Petford urges universities to be less risk-averse in difficult economic times
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Filmspeak: How to Understand Literary Theory by Watching Movies by Edward Tomarken
Philip Kemp wants more substance in the application of literary theory to popular cinema
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Warrior Geeks: How 21st Century Technology Is Changing The Way We Fight and Think About War by Christopher Coker
Steve Redhead on how the increasing sophistication of military technology affects modern warfare