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  1. It's hardly the Dark Ages

    Alan Ryan favours imagination over exaggeration when it comes to cutbacks

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    #Columnists
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  3. What are you reading?

    A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

    #Books
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  4. Leader: Is survival all that matters?

    The financial crisis will force universities to make difficult choices not just about how they operate but to what end

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  5. From where I sit:That's the spirit

    Twelve years ago, after failing in seven subjects at school, Han Han's father took him to the headmaster's office to complete the paperwork for dropouts. There he was asked by a sympathetic teacher...

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    #News
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  6. Hywel Teifi Edwards, 1934-2010

    A campaigner and authority on Welsh history acclaimed as "a combination of scholar and tribal story-teller" has died.Hywel Teifi Edwards was born in the village of Llanddewi Aberarth, Cardiganshire,...

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  7. Teachers must tune in to student diversity 1

    In the golden, privileged days when university students were the brightest and best, Eric Sotto's views about the training of lecturers may have had more validity ("You can lecture, but can you teach...

    #Letters

  8. Teachers must tune in to student diversity 2

    There is much to agree with in Eric Sotto's piece, yet he errs by conflating an evidence-based approach to teaching with gaining teaching qualifications, and I am unconvinced by his call to make them...

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  9. Teachers must tune in to student diversity 3

    Three cheers for Eric Sotto. His article provides a refreshing change of focus from the research excellence framework and was an intelligent contribution to the debate about teacher training for...

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  10. 'Breaking' the code

    In his letter last week, Adam Afriyie, the Conservative Shadow Science Minister, explains that when he said that ministers have the right to sack independent science advisers "because they don't like...

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  11. Careless talk

    Constantine Sandis is to be applauded for his rejection of the notion that academics have an absolute right to free speech ("Free speech within reason", 21 January). Academic freedom is too important...

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  12. Feel as you're told 1

    The manifestation of mushrooming wellbeing initiatives across the academic landscape may be rooted in a number of factors, and I applaud those colleagues who question their altruism ("Get happy, and...

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  13. Feel as you're told 2

    Although the website for the Higher Education Funding Council for England says that our project, Creating Success through Wellbeing in Higher Education, received £174,000, which you report, the...

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  14. Feel as you're told 3

    Members of the Abrahamic religions know that wellbeing initiatives in education are doomed to fail. Ecclesiastes 1:18 - "He who increases knowledge increases sorrow."Ian McNay, Professor emeritus,...

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  15. Cutters' creed

    Hefce's proposal to "require the governing body to take steps to rectify the position" if it considers that the "accountable officer cannot be relied upon" could indeed lead to the enforced removal...

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