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Campus round-up
Staffordshire UniversityMaths cash bonus adds upA university is introducing a teacher training course in secondary mathematics with a £9,000 bursary, reflecting the national shortage of teachers in...
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The week in higher education
Coverage of the University and College Union's strike action struggled to judge the numbers involved, or its impact. The Daily Mirror said on 24 March that institutions "will be crippled...as tens of...
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Citation averages, 2000-2010, by fields and years
Citation Averages, 2000-2010, by fields and yearsSource: Thomson Reuters' Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 2000-31 December 2010Years...
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Ignorance wins the day
Felipe Fernández-Armesto fears for the future of a leading comprehensive
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31 March 2011
Old faces, fresh scrutiny - Graduate gatekeepers needed to watch over the academy
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Rethink funding 'mess' to achieve democratic and wide participation
Offa’s access agreements will not work, argues Thomas Docherty, although two principles should be kept in any alternative system
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Leader: Guardians of their own future
Malcolm Gillies' report on university governance, the fruit of bitter personal experience, offers a way forward for the sector
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Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
The role of academics is criticism. As teachers, their role is to instil the critical spirit in students. The role of administration in the academy is not to hinder the development of intellectual...
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Two proposals to coax snouts out of troughs
We should be grateful to Times Higher Education for so thoroughly researching the remuneration of university vice-chancellors ("Identity check", 24 March). It is indefensible that the highest levels...
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Private whipping boys
While it is heartening to see the government trying to wrestle with the complex issues surrounding overseas students, its latest announcements have thrown up a number of inconsistencies ("Visa...
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Candid Cantor
We should be grateful to Brian Cantor, chair of the Employers Pensions Forum, for coming clean about two things that we always suspected but our employers had previously denied ("In this climate, USS...
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Underneath the Ivies
John Summers depicts an Ivy League education as a requirement for meaningful access to political power in the US ("Failure is not an option", 24 March). While many of Barack Obama's advisers are Ivy...
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Eye, meet mote
By allowing that "the reputation of the university, as a key institution of society, lies in its fearless pursuit of the truth", Malcolm Gillies succeeded in lifting at least one of my eyebrows a...
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Craven collaboration
The Arts and Humanities Research Council's decision to accede to the government's diktat to focus research on the "Big Society" is outrageous. It is bad enough that the coalition's market...