Administrative errors (2 of 2)
My late colleague John (Jackie) McKie hit the headlines "toasting" the Queen during the latter's visit to Stirling in 1972, yet it would be a pity if that incident were to constitute his sole epitaph...
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Mass engagement
Within just a few months, the term "Mooc" (massive open online courses) has jumped from one used by online-learning cognoscenti to the stuff of Times Higher Education opinion pieces by Alan Ryan ("...
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Unfair comparisons
Having recently observed at close hand the stress placed upon one student studying the International Baccalaureate and seeking admission to a University of Cambridge college, I would advise state-...
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Don't you forget about us
The introduction of a master's in public policy at the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government ("Candidates, follow our curriculum and prepare for global government", 11 October) is...
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Dysfunctional illiteracy
As some newly arrived students filed out of a lecture theatre recently, I overheard one plaintive youngster declare that she was going to struggle with the module because she "was not very good at...
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Campus round-up
Nottingham Trent UniversityFranklin my dear, we give a damnFertility specialist and television presenter Lord Winston has opened a multimillion-pound science facility named in honour of Rosalind...
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Appointments
Leeds Metropolitan UniversityMichelle BriggsAn academic whose research focuses on pain management and has the overall aim of improving patients' ability to cope with pain has joined Leeds...
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Empires and allies
The UK sector’s growing involvement in offshore education includes everything from branch campuses and institutional partnerships to validation and franchising. David Matthews weighs the different...
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European mobility plans 'not radical enough'
Lords call for more study abroad
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Declining investment could trigger irreversible loss of British prestige
Russell Group chair issues warning over threat to ‘hard-won eminence’. John Morgan reports
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Leader: Unknown half-life of fees fallout
With the first cohort of £9K students settling in, there is still no clear idea about how cost is affecting numbers and teaching
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From where I sit - Mens sana in corpore sano
I first met Zhao Jing when interviewing her two years ago. I was part of a panel evaluating her application to enter graduate study at Fudan University without sitting the entrance examination. She...
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Hands and minds
First-rate vocational training is more essential than ever, says Sally Feldman