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United StatesGoing to potA university in California has set up an interdisciplinary institute focused on marijuana research. Humboldt State University's Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary...
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILFollow-on FundAward winner: Eleanor RobsonInstitution: University of CambridgeValue: £109,9Materialities of Assyrian knowledge production: object biographies of...
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Consumer self-interest
An Oxford survey into attitudes to marketisation offers food for thought on our intellectual future, says Teresa Morgan
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Cycle of domination of top roles by men must be broken
More women attend university now, but there are still too few in senior posts. It's time to tackle the barriers, says Louise Morley
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Let morals exact change
Statutory regulation is not the answer, says Tim Luckhurst of the Leveson report. The press must be free and control itself
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Making up is hard to do
Janet Fluellen, our Director of Curriculum Development, has admitted to feeling "shock and outrage" upon reading Frank Furedi's confession in Times Higher Education that he "makes up" his learning...
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Not all outcomes are desirable ones (1 of 4)
I was very pleased to see that Frank Furedi ("The unhappiness principle", 29 November) has written the article that I, and probably hundreds of other readers, have been meaning to write about the...
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Not all outcomes are desirable ones (2 of 4)
I must write in robust defence of learning outcomes, which Frank Furedi so harshly dismisses.Centres of academic practice in universities all over the UK have spent the past 15 years searching for a...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...