Broad-minded unions reject local pay talks at Exeter
Staff turn down enhanced offer to stay within national bargaining unit. Jack Grove reports
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Universities bypassed as teaching goes direct
A university education department has warned that it may have to make redundancies as a result of government cuts to allocations of teacher training places.
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Visa 'rhetoric' a sorry business for the UK
Government rhetoric over visas is to blame for a perception that the UK is not a good place for international students to set up a business, according to a recent survey
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Black students loath to seek aid
Reluctance to contest marks or ask for help may be factors in attainment gap. Jack Grove writes
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Campus Round-Up
University of BedfordshireHearts on sleeves wear out fastSocial workers who get too involved with the problems of their clients report higher levels of stress, anxiety and depression, which can lead...
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Odds and Quads
Khartoum’s Coliseum cinema is seen here (top centre) in 1935, the year it opened. It was an open-air facility with a facade and walled, roofless seating.A 1949 photo (top left) captures an unnamed...
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Centre plans global evaluations
International research unit will tackle ‘lack of data’ on higher education. David Matthews reports
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Law school staff give poor marks to exam proposals
Leaked documents reveal backlash over mooted changes to assessment at Surrey
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This is bigger than social psychology
David Shanks suggests that Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman “sees a ‘train wreck looming’ for social psychology” (“Unconscious track to disciplinary train wreck”, Letters, 17 January). This is...
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Absence-minded, professor
Regarding your news item “Don’t you kids know who I am?” (3 January), which covered the criticisms made by Guy Halsall, professor of history at the University of York (quoted as describing himself as...
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Self-protection register
Bruce Macfarlane bemoans the “learnerism” arising from the so-called “surveillance culture” that measures student absenteeism, but also acknowledges the correlation between academic performance and...
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Instrumentalist discord
Mary Evans’ review misses the point and importance of Joanna Williams’ Consuming Higher Education: Why Learning Can’t Be Bought (Books, 17 January).While the Left and the students’ unions have argued...
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Strong roots and branches
In recent years, a number of British universities have encouraged international outreach by establishing campuses worldwide. Students from around the world benefit from the establishment of such...
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Mark my words
I read with interest about the inexpensive technique allowing lecturers to record personalised video feedback while marking, but I am not convinced that it would reduce marking time as proposed (“...
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Selective motives
I would be less cynical about the Office for Fair Access chief Les Ebdon’s motives if he were even half as obsessed with the social mix at less highly selective institutions as he is with that seen...