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  1. Not all outcomes are desirable ones (3 of 4)

    Frank Furedi is correct. Learning outcomes should be got rid of. For a start, the name is ambiguous: is "learning" a verb or an adjective? Should students merely learn the outcomes? Any course or...

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  2. Not all outcomes are desirable ones (4 of 4)

    Frank Furedi's characterisation of the woeful limitations of the mechanical and formulaic method of assessing learning outcomes accords well with my own considerable experience as a university...

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  3. Free-spirited contrarians

    In expressing doubts about the wisdom of allowing private, for-profit universities ("Charitable status, shareholder suspicion: Buckingham v-c's for-profit fears", News, 29 November), Terence Kealey,...

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  4. Private put-offs

    I agree with Kenneth Smith ("Data to end quota debate", Letters, 29 November) that we could simply look at finals data for the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge to see if we can...

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  5. Minority report

    The attainment gap between white and black and minority ethnic (BME) students ("Mind, don't dismiss, the BME attainment gap", News, 22 November) is of great concern but sadly not a huge surprise....

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  6. Words louder than action

    Queen Mary, University of London welcomes the University and College Union's decision to cancel its strike and to join other trade unions in accepting our standing invitation to help review the...

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  7. Master's crisis

    As outlined in the article "Three wishes: NUS urges trio of loans to help poor postgraduates" (News, 22 November), a real crisis in master's programmes is approaching. As well as the issues over...

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  8. Statistically speaking

    Tim Moore and Woody Caan (Letters, 25 October) describe statistics as a common language, invaluable for pooling knowledge and precise in a world of uncertainties. But if the world of organisations...

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  9. Secure in the knowledge

    In the past two weeks Times Higher Education has been running with two interesting items that appear to be completely separate. One concerns the Council for the Defence of British Universities ("...

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  10. Something to hide?

    Keith Flett surely dissembles when he suggests that his beard (a removable statement) is the reason he has never been approached by MI-something (Letters, 29 November): his missives to Times Higher...

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  11. Campus round-up

    Goldsmiths, University of LondonWall of remembranceA mural inspired by a London house fire that killed 13 young black people has been unveiled. Artists from Northern Ireland with a record of...

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  12. Appointments

    University of WarwickSridhar SeetharamanWMG (formerly Warwick Manufacturing Group) has appointed Sridhar Seetharaman to the Tata Steel and Royal Academy of Engineering joint chair for research into...

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  13. Credential crisis

    Universities’ monopoly on certifying expertise is at risk, warns Tamson Pietsch

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  15. Oil and troubled waters

    Spring is dawning in the Gulf and the UK academy’s links with the region’s repressive, anachronistic autocracies look increasingly questionable, says Christopher Davidson

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