Don't bore us, get to the 'useful answer' chorus, says ex-minister
Education scholars told to swap 'minor' research for policy-focused pursuits. Matthew Reisz reports
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Vive la résistance! Students rise up to fight fees increase
But Quebec's government is determined not to be swayed by months of protests. Erin Millar reports
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Fast-tracking? We've got it
Poppleton's for-profit Elsie Dimchurch College of Drama and Deportment has been one of the "winners" in the recent review of private college courses undertaken by the Department for Business,...
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Agents are not the villains of piece
Regarding "Grand fee paid for each foreign student" (News, 5 July). The article makes much of Newcastle University spending £2.2 million on recruitment agents' commission. What it does not mention is...
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Tricky balancing act
As academics, we are trained to understand complexity but too often argue in binary. The Dame Janet Finch-led Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings, of which I was a member...
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Failure of principle
We write to express our outrage at a recent decision by the University and College Union's national executive (on which we sit). Before the committee was a motion expressing regret about Labour Party...
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Utility judgement
Regarding "Failing the Turing test" (21 June): Fred Inglis' attack on the research excellence framework offers a sterile response to a dispiriting problem, and in doing so misses the point.Impact...
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Singularly annoying
Regarding "After 'fightback', Classics will no longer be all Greek to urban youth" (News, 5 July). It reminded me of my continual irritation at the neglect of the singular nouns "phenomenon" and "...
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Copy that (it's cheaper)
One of the books recently reviewed in Times Higher Education, Modern Women in China and Japan (12 July), was advertised as having 224 pages and a price of £56.As a work of scholarship, the book may...
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You've said enough
Charles Husband asks why so many academics are incapable of keeping to their allotted time at conferences ("Discourse and discourtesy", 12 July). What? Does he mean us? Then again, I note that...
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Research Intelligence - Higgsteria: it's only the beginning
New 'big physics' projects will need global funding and public support. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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The week in higher education
• When Karl Marx outlined his theory of class conflict, he missed one key contributing factor: the use of contextual data in university admissions. "Social engineering 'could lead to class war'",...
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Leader: Retain our critical faculties
In dark days, the academy must dare to look beyond arguments for economic impact and restate the case for its intrinsic value
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From Where I Sit - The English are coming
Until recently, English students were something of a rarity at German universities. Indeed, one German administrator commented that "a few years ago, you were more likely to meet a Mongolian student...