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Your anonymous opinion piece, "Maintain standards? That's way more than my job's worth" (17 March), reflects unease at the increasing volume of the "student voice" as a quality control instrument in...
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Tax irregularities
I am trying to make sense of an inconsistency in the taxation of external-examiner fees.Since moving from Cambridgeshire to Leicestershire, I have discovered an irregularity in the way fees paid to...
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Wizard of Ozymandias (1 of 2)
I enjoyed Clive Bloom's "Hello, Yellow Brick Road" (17 March), but he repeats a myth that Frank Baum himself must have started about "Oz" having originated from the chance sighting of a filing...
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Wizard of Ozymandias (2 of 2)
It is interesting that there has been no media mention of the bicentenary of Shelley's expulsion from the University of Oxford on 25 March 1811. Is this because his crime was to disregard the first...
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Reading head to stand down
The vice-chancellor of the University of Reading is to step down.
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Back to the 1980s: v-c warning over Willetts’ places plan
Any attempt by the government to siphon off a percentage of student places and reallocate them to universities offering the lowest fees would drive down quality and lead to larger class sizes, a vice...
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Inside Higher Ed: Colleges fling spring parties
By Allie Grasgreen, for Inside Higher Ed
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AHRC and the Big Society: ‘you use the language policymakers understand’
The Arts and Humanities Research Council has strongly denied that it has been pressurised into funding research on the Conservative Party’s “Big Society” agenda.
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Leeds Met to charge near-maximum fees
Two years ago, Leeds Metropolitan University was the only higher education institution in England offering a substantial discount on tuition fees, charging just £2,000 a year.
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Aboriginal Canadians’ university challenges are still steep
In the 1950s, it was possible to count the number of students from an aboriginal background studying at Canadian universities on the fingers of one hand.Numbers have grown substantially since then,...
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Republican Party demands access to Wisconsin academic’s emails
A branch of the US Republican Party has been accused of attacking academic freedom by using freedom of information laws to access emails sent by a University of Wisconsin-Madison academic who...
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Higher education unions and students set to March for the Alternative
Members of higher education unions will take to London’s streets to join a day of protest against government cuts to public services, while students plan to inject some “radical spirit” via a feeder...
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Students’ show of solidarity with national strike action
Occupations are under way at two London universities as students rally in support of lecturers mounting a national strike over pensions, pay and jobs.
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Aston opts for maximum fees
Aston University has become the first institution from outside the 1994 and Russell groups to announce plans to charge tuition fees of £9,000 in 2012.
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Failure is not an option
Reflexive claims for the US academy's greatness ring hollow, says John Summers, given elite institutions' tight links with economic and political power and lack of appetite for challenging ideas