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Leader: Immovable feast of talent
Global mobility in the academy's top ranks has been limited, but fresh perspectives could be vital in a shifting landscape
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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US austerity mandate will end Obama college spending spree
Midterm elections will turn off federal financial tap to higher education for the next two years. Jon Marcus reports
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Off Piste - All together now...
Robin Dunbar has to confess he never learned to play an instrument. But that doesn't stop him believing that music should be at the heart of education
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From where I sit - Whither the vision of yesteryear?
I've been looking for a way to describe the mood of my department this term, which is in the throes of implementing a much-contested revision to our curriculum, arrived at after three long years of...
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David Malvern, 1946-2010
An internationally renowned leader in science education has died.David Malvern was born in Crosby, Merseyside on 20 October 1946 and won a scholarship to Merchant Taylors' School before reading...
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University of Oxford - Growth spurt
An Oxford college has launched a £17 million fundraising campaign for a major expansion that will include the building of two new quadrangles and a bridge link across a city centre street. As part of...
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Research intelligence - Juno and Athena rise up
Awards that recognise efforts to reform gender inequality in science are making a difference. Paul Jump reports
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The academy's role in A-level 'devaluation' (1 of 2)
Your leader, "Time for a return to entry duty?" (4 November), rightly calls upon universities to play a part in shaping A-level qualifications. But let us not be tempted to join the clamour of voices...
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The academy's role in A-level 'devaluation' (2 of 2)
I disagree with the somewhat dismissive approach to the views of teachers and subject associations taken in your feature, "Making the A level work a little harder" (4 November).The A level is part of...
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Elite, against the odds (1 of 3)
The Browne Report looks likely to leave arts and humanities students with twice the level of fees and some academic departments facing closure ("The shape of things to come", 28 October).Given that "...
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Elite, against the odds (2 of 3)
Universities need to be able to plan in order to deliver high-quality courses. But student choice is likely to be fickle, with income course by course hard to predict from year to year.How will the...
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Elite, against the odds (3 of 3)
If a review chaired by a distinguished literary publisher and president of the British Academy had recommended that government funding for undergraduate teaching be entirely concentrated on the...
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Truth to powers
There is one point in the Policy Exchange report on private providers in higher education that must not go unchallenged ("Private firms keen to take Queen's shilling for student support", 4 November...