PhD: D is for discrimination
The decision by City University London and Birkbeck, University of London to make PhDs a standard job requirement ("Doctor yes: the rise and rise of PhDs as standard", 17 February) may well amount to...
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Impact factors
With the disappearance of most public money for teaching in the humanities, there is no reason to maintain the Chinese wall between funding for research and teaching. Accordingly, "impact" should be...
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Men's hour (again)
I recently conducted research on the gender make-up of the panels announced for the research excellence framework. The methodology employed was counting (I'm not very good at it, so the results...
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Swansong for ugly duckling
Rather than giving me the bird with mixed metaphors on cuckoos and swallows (Letters, 24 February), Douglas Kell, a research council chief executive officer, might reflect on why Ken Seddon, the UK's...
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Vocational support
Geoff Smith asks about the difference between a salary and a stipend (Letters, 24 February). It is subtle but significant. A salary is payment for work done, whereas a stipend is payment to support...
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They've started, but will they finish?
Some 13 million students enrol in the US community college system each year, but only about a third graduate. How can completion rates be improved? Zoë Corbyn reports on what is being done to turn '...
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If I were you, Mr Willetts...
As the White Paper that will lay out the government's agenda for change is delayed 'to test proposals more thoroughly', seven former education ministers offer their recommendations. Simon Baker...
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TV review: The True Story: The Exorcist
Did Satan, the arch-villain, possess a 13-year-old boy, asks Gary Day, on the tale inspiring The Exorcist
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Campus round-up
University of WarwickPlaces of powerAn international research project investigating centres of world influence is to be led by an English university that has been awarded EUR8 million (£6.8 million)...
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Odds and quads
This watercolour of the medical kit owned by the great Victorian missionary and explorer David Livingstone (1813-73) was painted shortly after his death in what is now Zambia.
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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3 March 2011
Seven brains are better than two - Former education ministers offer a little advice to David Willetts
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UCU vote means 63 universities face strikes
Sixty-three of the UK’s most prestigious universities face strikes over changes to pensions after members of the University and College Union backed stoppages.
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Voices of protest under the dreaming spires
A formal campaign against the government’s higher education reforms is to be set up at the University of Oxford.
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Exeter goes to the top of the cap
The University of Exeter, which is led by Steve Smith, president of Universities UK, plans to set undergraduate tuition fees at £9,000 a year, the maximum allowed.