Early loan repayments a 'gift to the government'
Students who repay their tuition fees early may simply be making an unnecessary "gift to the government", an economist has warned.
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Canadians feud over 'attack' on academic freedom
A row about a redefinition of academic freedom has escalated in Canada, with the head of the representative body for academics condemning the document as "a full-scale attack on academic freedom like...
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Brunel to offer a special sort of Self-assessment
'The young have fewer preconceptions' - Will Self talks to Jack Grove about his new professorship
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A radical antithesis
Universities are training grounds for engaged citizens, not terrorists, says Louise Richardson
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The roots still show through
The spray-tanned, dyed cliches of Essex fascinate and appal. In his latest play, David Eldridge reminds us of another side of the county, writes Mark O'Thomas
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Diary
ManchesterThe Devil's WallIdris Khan's new installation, to be seen in the UK for the first time at the Whitworth Art Gallery (until 13 May), draws inspiration from the pilgrimage to Mecca. At its...
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The Pick - Other Stories: Queering the University Art Collection
Other Stories: Queering the University Art CollectionStanley & Audrey Burton GalleryUniversity of Leeds February to 5 MayBernard Meninsky's Mother and Child, painted in 1919, is a touching image...
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Me, myself and I
One of our leading scholars, Professor F.R. Beavis, of the Department of English and Related Studies for Impact, has announced that in future he will acknowledge the co-authorship of research that he...
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Offa's 'nuclear option' is an illusory concept (1 of 2)
Among the coverage of the appointment of a new Office for Fair Access director ("Cable to make selection panel an Offa it can't refuse", 16 February), it is said that Les Ebdon has threatened to use...
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Offa's 'nuclear option' is an illusory concept (2 of 2)
The vilification of Les Ebdon in some sections of the press, in opposition to his appointment as director of Offa, is ill-informed, completely unjustified and highly damaging to the causes of...
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You get what you pay for
John Gill, in his leader ("Something has got to give", 16 February), raises the point that English students who will be paying tuition fees of £9,000 a year from September will expect the teaching...
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Wholly effective
The letters by Robin Parker and by Sally Hunt ("Fear of failure?", 16 February) on the Review of Higher Education Governance in Scotland, chaired by Ferdinand von Prondzynski, point to the need for a...
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A levels are A-OK
In response to the article "Do not throw that IB pearl away, richer than the impoverished A level" (9 February), I say, look to the extended project, vice-chancellors, not the IB: there you will find...
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Polyglots go free
While I wholeheartedly agree with Tony Chafer's views on the decline of language degrees ("Mind our languages", 16 February), he has missed one relevant fact: students who go abroad on the Erasmus...
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Unnatural disaster
Malcolm Gillies, the vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, reports a "tsunami of late applications" as the reason why London Met is facing a fine of up to £6 million from the Higher...