Scramble for top students linked to fall in numbers
Universities and applicants put eggs in one basket, Ucas suggests. Jack Grove reports
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North star to set UCL's direction
Leeds v-c will replace Malcolm Grant and plans to extend 'global footprint'. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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Fresh blood an option after year of heavy losses
Remaining 1994 Group members meet for first time after mass departures. John Morgan reports
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The sector shalt be free, fair and never satisfied
Academic freedom has been listed as the first of "10 commandments of higher education" by a leading scholar.
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'Unreasonable' rules make Regent's reluctant to compete for state loans
Head criticises plan to cap undergraduate numbers for private access to SLC funds. John Morgan writes
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Leader: Can't cry wolf over all the howling
Paul Ramsden's attack on the critics of academic reform is entertaining but unfair: there are plenty of causes for concern
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London's falling
Geoffrey Alderman mourns the decline and seemingly inevitable disintegration of a once great democratic body
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Be here now, or else: lamentable effects of student 'presenteeism'
Forcing undergraduates to attend class retards their capacity to develop as mature, independent learners, warns Bruce Macfarlane
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Hang the expenses
In this age of austerity, delaying reimbursements owed to external examiners is inexcusable, opines Iain Stevenson
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Great big classes: 'we love 'em' - official
Our Deputy Head of Student Experience, Nancy Harbinger, has described research on student-to-staff ratios by Stephen Court as "dangerously misleading".Mr Court, a senior research officer at the...
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Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
The story behind the writing of a literary tour de force is illuminating, finds Tessa Hadley
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Dominatrix: Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon
BDSM (the compound acronym denoting the practices of bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism) seems to be everywhere these days. The unprecedented and unlikely...
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Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation
This is a wonderful book that has all the strengths and weaknesses of the US scholarship on which it is based. In such a cultural space, religion is perceived as an asset, a positive resource,...
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Was Hitler Ill? A Final Diagnosis
No excuses, says Yvonne Sherratt: the Fuhrer’s enormities cannot be blamed on insanity