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Quality assuranceTwo bodies, one visionThe Quality Assurance Agency and the Office of the Independent Adjudicator have committed to sharing information. A co-signed memorandum of understanding...
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Five years to end Wales validations
'Residual body' will award degrees up to at least 2017-18, says v-c. David Matthews reports
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News in brief
New ZealandFee increase bid rejectedThe head of the body that represents Maori higher education students in New Zealand has welcomed the government's decision to turn down a university's application...
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'Underlying calculation of Russell Group v-cs' (1 of 2)
The University and College Union research officer quoted in Times Higher Education last week deserves credit for publicising an open secret: that our "top" universities claim inflated student-to-...
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'Underlying calculation of Russell Group v-cs' (2 of 2)
The conundrum of academics who do not teach but who are counted statistically as doing so is surely easily solved in the era of multitasking. As academics potter around the archives or are deep in...
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Not in our name
Regarding "Words louder than action" (Letters, 6 December). In it, Chris Pearson, director of human resources at Queen Mary, University of London, welcomes the decision by the University and College...
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Off the beaten track
Nobel laureate Andre Geim criticises academics who spend their lives researching the same subjects that they addressed in their doctoral work ("Not monkeys, so why the peanuts?", News, 29 November)....
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Socc it to ya, ya big Mooc
THE correctly points to aspects of massive open online courses that UK universities could learn from ("This could be huge...", 6 December). For example, the development of "big data" models to better...
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Immeasurable outcomes (1 of 2)
While Frank Furedi outlines four compelling arguments against the use of learning outcomes in higher education ("The unhappiness principle", 29 November), it seems to me that another should be...
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Immeasurable outcomes (2 of 2)
The perverse use of learning outcomes as instruments of performance management is a classic example of the "bureaucratisation of good intentions", about which PA Consulting Group wrote in THE's pages...
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Solidarity, sisters
The continuing gender pay gap affecting female academic staff in UK universities and the disparities at the senior level are causes for concern ("Cycle of domination of top roles by men must be...
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Divine wisdom
The centuries-old debate about what makes a university a university, revived by Ferdinand von Prondzynski, Robert Gordon University's vice-chancellor, is indeed eternally relevant (THE Scholarly Web...
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Odds and quads
These are the original designs for the dioramas created for London's Commonwealth Institute by one of the UK's leading post-war designers, James Gardner (1907-95).
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Appointments
City University LondonCarl StychinThe new dean of City University London's law school said the job had become "more and more attractive" as he became convinced of the contribution it could make to...
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It should be the making of us
Rejecting dire warnings that increasing competition in higher education will end in disaster, Paul Ramsden argues that the opposite could be true, but only if the sector is allowed to take charge of...