For ever in their debt (1 of 2)
Replacing direct grants to universities with tuition fees backed by loans cuts the government's annual deficit. Borrowing to award grants to universities is counted as public borrowing, but doing so...
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For ever in their debt (2 of 2)
I am still trying to understand the implications of the student loans scheme for part-time and distance students in England. According to the DirectGov website's advice to such students: "You don't...
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Pork lightning strikes once
Ken Smith bemoans the fact that the University of Poppleton does not appear in the Index at the back of Times Higher Education ('You're making this up", Letters, 6 September). He may be reassured...
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Limitations of knowledge
Your review of Backsliding: Understanding Weakness of Will ("Just one more wafer-thin mint?", Books, 16 August) should have recast the problem as one of epistemology.How can Jack, struggling in the...
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Snouts in the trough
Christopher Belshaw's call for "dispassionate, rational, evidence-based hard thinking" about animals and the natural world reminds me of calls to deal with the financial crisis with more deregulation...
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Campus round-up
Trinity Laban ConservatoirePride and joyTwo original musical pieces written by an academic took centre stage at the Paralympics opening ceremony. Errollyn Wallen, who teaches composition at Trinity...
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Appointments
University of WolverhamptonJohn DarlingThe new dean of research at the University of Wolverhampton has expressed his delight at being part of "ambitious plans for investing in research at the...
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Research intelligence - The Young ones look for British home
Scientists at the peak of their creativity are trying to find a voice in Britain. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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India and London Met lose that loving feeling
Joanna Sugden reports from India on falling student applications and pre-emptive cutbacks
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Stay-at-home students need help to get moving
European universities need to improve their efforts to help doctoral students and academics spend time abroad, a report by the European University Association has found.
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From Where I Sit - A real Nowhere man
Amid the fallout from the scandal over Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State University assistant football coach convicted of child abuse, how could one possibly associate the university with utopia...
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13 September 2012
Politics, philosophy, economics - Troubled outsider’s outsized significance
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English tuition-fee regime gets thumbs up on mobility
‘Most advanced’ student-support structure in developed world, says OECD. John Morgan reports