UK is standing strong, not clinging on 1
The latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings based on new methodology have attracted much attention since being published last week.Regrettably, some of the headlines and...
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UK is standing strong, not clinging on 2
The article comparing aggregate points in the THE World University Rankings raised some interesting points. However, this is only a starting point. What we really need is to recalculate the figures...
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UK is standing strong, not clinging on 3
You point out that the US dominates the THE World University Rankings and that the UK is in second place. While the effects of spending on higher education as a proportion of GDP are discussed, there...
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UK is standing strong, not clinging on 4
"It hath been finished" and now? In essence, THE's list of top institutions does not reveal anything excitingly new. We will all agree that these "top 200" are very good universities and that they...
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UK is standing strong, not clinging on 5
As with every time new "world rankings" are published, I find myself scratching my head.Am I missing something? Card-carrying professional scientist that I am, it still completely eludes me how...
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Not a mixed blessing
You confidently assert that the Catholic University of Ireland - which only later became University College Dublin - of which Cardinal Newman was appointed first rector by Pope Pius IX and Archbishop...
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Needle point
Judith Farquhar berates me for not being an expert on Chinese medicine (Letters, 9 September), but she is a professor of anthropology. I can find only one publication by her in PubMed, a digital...
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Speaking our language
I write in response to David Head's letter (9 September) regarding cuts in the modern languages department at Swansea University. As the education officer at Swansea Students' Union, I will be on the...
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STEM is not a special case
It is a pity that contributors from various scientific societies in the letter to THE (9 September) chose to distort my research on the relationship between economic growth and participation in...
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23 September 2010
Spiritual accommodation - Is there a place for the faithful in the academy?
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Talking about a revolution: Cable wants to tear down walls between higher and further education
The “artificial” barriers between universities and further education should be swept away in a bid to a create a “revolution” in post-16 education and training, Vince Cable has told the Liberal...
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How to get students through their PhD thesis
Tara Brabazon shares her 10-step regime for steering emotionally drained postgraduate students through the final stages of their thesis
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Science funding cuts will devastate economy, warns Brian Cox
One of Britain’s best-known physicists has attacked government plans to severely cut the science budget as “ludicrous”, warning of a devastating impact on the UK economy.
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Inside Higher Ed: A Truly Bookless Library
By Steve Kolowich for Inside Higher Ed
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End of tuition fees is near, says Hughes
A coalition government agreement to abolish tuition fees in England and replace them with a system closer to a graduate tax is near and simply needs edging “over the line”, Simon Hughes, the Liberal...