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Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
For all the confusion surrounding the role of professors, one thing's certain: junior staff expect them to do a lot more to help
The ongoing debate over the future prospects for those entering higher education in England applies to the visual arts as much as any other field. For students aiming to earn their living as visual...
I write this while struggling, as chair of a local University and College Union committee, to complete the detail of a workload model for my institution and having just closed (partly successfully)...
I welcome the involvement of Which? in the world of higher education data provision ("Intelligence agency", Letters, 3 November). It would be particularly helpful if Peter Vicary-Smith, the...
In "Are radical journals selling out?" (3 November), Alastair Bonnett failed to mention one of the most popular and influential publications in the field - The Journal for Critical Education Policy...
I am flattered that a former member of staff recalls my own "Malcolm Grant" moment of notoriety (Letters, 10 November). I remember vainly attempting to convince a sceptical reporter of the viability...
I read with interest your coverage of the study suggesting the inverse relationship between teaching quality, broad educational student-focused outcomes and associated university rankings ("Topsy-...
I was bewildered by the photo illustrating your article on the portrayal of Palestinians in Israeli history books ("Schooled in distrust: a textbook case of indoctrination?", 10 November). I fail to...
Is it too much of a hermeneutic leap to detect a connection in the proximity of the reviews of Martijn Icks' book on the Emperor Elagabalus, famous for "his sexual depravity and orgiastic rituals",...
Now we know the University of Poppleton's academic staffing levels: 167 scholars, or to be precise, 166 and one part-timer on 3.33 days a week. This is the only way to explain how Gordon Lapping's...
A university that has been on the funding council’s “at risk” list for 12 years – longer than any other in England – has been removed from the register.

By Elizabeth Murphy, for Inside Higher Ed
Five times as many further education colleges as universities have bid for places under the government’s cut-price student numbers margin in 2012-13.

Tuition fee waivers should be scrapped in favour of bursaries, according to a former president of the National Union of Students.