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Leader: Why do we steal their starshine?
In our confusion about what we want out of students, we too easily denigrate their genuine accomplishments
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Libraries reject 'raw deal' on e-journals
Cut cost of accessing research catalogues or lose RLUK business, publishers told. Paul Jump reports
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Never mind the contact width, feel the quality (1 of 3)
I read with interest Paul Ramsden's views on attempts to measure the quality of university provision by contact hours and class sizes ("When I grow up, I want to be spoon-fed", 11 August). This...
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Never mind the contact width, feel the quality (2 of 3)
Paul Ramsden ("When I grow up, I want to be spoon-fed") raises a number of questions, some of which are addressed by Ann Mroz ("Hours and hours of reckoning", Leader, 11 August). However, two things...
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Never mind the contact width, feel the quality (3 of 3)
I couldn't agree more with Ann Mroz: it's not about how much time you spend with students, but what you do with it that counts.However, the bean counters are in the field already, so might I suggest...
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No degrees in compassion
I read with increasing concern Ruth Davies' letter ("Angels with dirty hands", 11 August).Let me register my interest. I trained and practised as a state registered nurse from 1968 to 1974, working...
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A simple reminder
Your article "We can't afford to be too choosy" (11 August) illustrates how easy it is to build a sensational story out of a private email.It might be useful, though, to set the record straight. Yes...
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This is no accident
Ann Mroz's analysis of the effects of recent government policies (AAB and core-margin places) is correct: they will lead to the cementing of the new English Ivy League's exclusivity, "setting back...
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Pedagogic formula
Alan Ryan is a wise man, but his teaching formula has the wrong pig by the tail ("Too much information", 11 August). Try this: Teaching = Research minus Scholarship. If lectures and small-group...
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Spite and sneering
"Spiteful book reviews" are, says William Gibson, "especially common among academics who have not written books themselves" (Letters, 11 August). Presumably, those who criticise The X Factor as...
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Pop goes the Twitter
I nominated the University of Poppleton's Twitter site as the most admired in higher education social media. Six tweets and 130 followers later, did the IT department lose the weekly auto-tweet...
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Teaching-only institutions would ensure affordability and quality, thinktank claims
The majority of universities should stop designing curricula and awarding their own degrees, and offer programmes accredited by major research-intensive institutions.
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Cambridge tops NSS, while London universities rally
Newer universities in London have enjoyed some of the biggest gains in student satisfaction, according to the results of the National Student Survey.