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  1. Lifelong affairs 1

    In the past week, three universities - Bristol, Reading and Manchester - closed their public programmes of courses for adults.The closure of such programmes, which have reached hundreds of thousands...

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  2. Lifelong affairs 2

    As the proposer of the Parliamentary early day motion in support of the Campaigning Alliance for Lifelong Learning (CALL), I was surprised by your account of the organisation's Westminster lobby with...

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  3. Different rules apply pre-92

    Subtle observer he may be of university politics and policy, but when it comes to those upstart crows the post-92 universities, Alan Ryan likes his slogans as much as the next minister ("It is all a...

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  4. Dancing to a one-note tune

    The fashion in universities is to at best ignore and at worst undermine the methodological and intellectual integrity of disciplines by creating spurious new school identities. These pop into...

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  5. Passion over pathology

    Individual differences compose the most controversial area of psychology. In your collection of "geniuses" all the "celebrated" figures are male, as are almost all the senior academics who comment on...

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  6. Politics of past and present

    Frank Furedi pretends that my book, Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen, is a theory of international relations, but it is exactly the opposite: a study of constitutional politics that...

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  7. MPs bark up the wrong tree

    Your report on the Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Select Committee evidence session failed to highlight the real dangers of the proposals being advanced by a small number of pundits ("...

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  8. Pay packets of excellence

    It's been a good year. In 2007-08, academic pay rose more rapidly than the national average. Vice-chancellors took home the big money, but thanks to the credit crunch, this year may be the high-water...

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  9. Fear and loathing in Chicago

    A bitter economic wind blew through the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference last month. David Gewanter saw it snap a few authors out of their usual self-obsession

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  10. 19 March 2009

    Noteworthy - Academics’ and vice-chancellors’ pay 2007-08

  11. Tara Brabazon: Return of the brain changers

    Media scaremongering about the sinister effects of new media on young people’s brains is a poor excuse for failing to engage with and bring out the best in our students, argues Tara Brabazon

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  12. Bullied Blogger: Paranoid (and very isolated) android

    9 March: After my session last week with Marcus about most of my modules failing the organisation’s new viability test, I go home in a state of great anguish. I know this exercise is contrived, I...

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  14. Gloria Monday: Guess who’s coming to dinner?

    Gloria Monday’s newfound street cred sees her sharing a Quorn and vodka repast around a student table where the proletarian accents are fake but the filth is real

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