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Staines has fallen
Regarding "Rationalise to survive" (Letters, 17 March). The philistines aren't at the gates - they've reached Staines.Sue Powell, University of Salford
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Cable tells sector: you’re being ‘irrational’ over fees
Universities are being “economically irrational” by planning to charge tuition fees close to £9,000 and face permanently losing places if they fail to fill courses at that price, the business...
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Hundreds sign petition to save philosophy at Greenwich
More than 1,000 people have signed a petition calling for philosophy to be saved at the University of Greenwich.
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Greenwich appoints new vice-chancellor
The University of Greenwich has appointed a new vice-chancellor.
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All-round excellence
When it comes to global league tables, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings offer the most comprehensive approach. Phil Baty reports
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Tara Brabazon: In tune, but out of time
Teaching popular culture is a gift and challenge. When done well, students’ experiences are defamiliarised, disassembled and disrupted, and then reconstituted with freshness and inspiration. Popular...
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Union calls on MPs to investigate possible collusion over tuition fees
A union official has called on a cross-party group of MPs to investigate whether universities are colluding on tuition fees.
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Pause for reflection: Uclan head calls for timeout on fees reform
The vice-chancellor of the second post-1992 university to set £9,000 fees has called on the government to “pause” fee rises and new legislation to allow time for a “new Dearing report” into the...
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Derby to offer range of tuition fees
The University of Derby has announced that it intends to set variable tuition fees of up to £8,000 from September 2012.
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Social mobility no easier in England’s modern meritocracy than in medieval oligarchy
The rate of social mobility in England over the past century and a half was substantially slower than most social scientists believe – and possibly slower than in the Middle Ages.That is the...
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Global canvass: reputation survey is under way
Tens of thousands of academics across the globe are now being invited to take part in the world’s biggest survey of university reputations ever undertaken.
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Inside Higher Ed: Laptop and battery (arrest)
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Latin America’s alternative alliance
Driven by its stated mission to pursue internationalisation via a socially progressive path, the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas (Alba) is quietly expanding its alternative vision of higher...
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Doses may vary: wide disparity in pharmacy students’ contact hours
Some pharmacy students are getting less than half as much contact time as their peers at other UK universities, according to new figures.