Fair's unfair
The Funding with affordable income-based repayments (Fair) system may be anything but ("Graduates - ripe for investment?", 3 May). If it constituted debt bondage, it might be illegal and would...
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Kingston UniversityAudley GenusThe new YTL professor of innovation and technology management at Kingston University Business School believes that there needs to be more understanding of the "...
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Campus round-up
University of St AndrewsSatisfaction guaranteedScottish teenagers are more satisfied with life than many of their counterparts across Europe, according to a study into health inequalities. Jo Inchley...
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Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands
Using words to reflect and create our experience of landscapes, and vice versa, is a powerful ruse. Leo Mellor admires the view
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Research intelligence - Tinkering produces converted Catalysts
Culture change is the focus of the Beacons' successors. Will it happen? asks Rachel Williams
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China in their hands
Howard Davies on the People’s Republic’s gamble on Western education
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Windows on their worlds
From Thoreau’s pond and Hawthorne’s gables to Hardy’s study and the Brontës’ moors: Dale Salwak draws on his own literary pilgrimages to open students’ eyes to the sense of place underpinning great...
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REF may push players towards open goal
But publishers dismiss Willetts’ suggestion as not a ‘game changer’. Paul Jump reports
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From where I sit - Pursuit of happiness
It was inevitable that social scientists would devise what they call "indices of human happiness". These indices ask us to think about the well-being of nations not in terms of economic output, but...
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The week in higher education
• A former MI6 man has become the UK's oldest recorded graduate after gaining his third degree at the age of 90, The Independent reported. Bertie Gladwin took a master's in intelligence history at...
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10 May 2012
Outdoor accessories - Do v-cs’ external roles and recompense serve staff and students as well?
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Leader: Don't lose focus on the day job
Vice-chancellors have to show that their rewards are appropriate and their outside positions (and earnings) are no distraction
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Cambridge leader: going for growth will harm long-term contributions
Economic benefits are 'by-products' of teaching and research, says Sir Leszek. Elizabeth Gibney writes