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The Week in Higher Education
A student at the University of Southern California has been forced to go to ground after pictures of him enjoying high-rise extracurricular activities went viral. It was reported on 31 March that the...
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Beyond the buffers
Alan Ryan wonders why women still appear to be losing out in academia
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7 April 2011
Ready for the future? - Our survey of university finances
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Leader: Amid the gloom, a little cheer
For a change, the sector escapes ministerial brickbats over social mobility and can enjoy the small comfort of a tidy surplus
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Delete 'Big Society': email protest presses AHRC to drop Tory mantra
Council claims it has no deal with government as thousands join campaign. Paul Jump reports
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Keeping it in the family ignores public interest (1 of 2)
It is understandable that people having personal issues with university governance arrangements might want to keep out those considered ignorant of the context ("Old boys and girls should be handed...
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Keeping it in the family ignores public interest (2 of 2)
Malcolm Gillies suggests bringing alumni on to governing bodies, but do they really have the necessary knowledge of their almae matres? From time to time I have asked current students in various...
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Pension tensions (1 of 3)
In "Candid Cantor" (Letters, 31 March), Daniel Vulliamy misreads Brian Cantor's letter of 17 March on the Universities Superannuation Scheme and quotes him out of context. As Cantor points out, the...
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Pension tensions (2 of 3)
The refusal of the employers to negotiate on changes to the USS and a national jobs agreement indicates a "no-compromise" position. They clearly want to take advantage of the government's...
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Pension tensions (3 of 3)
I recently obtained a doctorate in contemporary French history, but the prospects look bleak for this "zero-hours contract" tutor. With 40,000 posts forecast to go in the sector, what career is now...
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Entrenched attitudes
I have the privilege of working in a small institution whose staff prioritise the education of students. We receive a very small amount of research funding, yet staff here do research. Our students,...
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How low can you go?
As an independent scholar and a parent of three children, one of whom attends university, I was amazed to learn that the National Union of Students' Charter on Personal Tutors has pitched its...
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Conflicts of interest
The Toepfer affair at the University of Oxford ("Tainted money?", 10 March) raises important questions about the way universities handle complaints about allegedly tainted donations and also about...
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Distinctly important (1 of 2)
Even James Ladyman, philosophy's great champion, underestimates the value of "learning to make distinctions" ("From politics to science to critical thought - 'we need philosophy'", 31 March).In...