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  1. Leader: Update the time-tested models

    Academics and students alike can gain by breaking with old thinking and moving beyond the traditional assessment methods

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  2. Ronald Hepburn, 1927-2008

    Ronald Hepburn, a pioneer in the field of philosophical aesthetics, has died.He was born in Aberdeen on 16 March 19 and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School. After serving with the Royal Marines and...

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  3. University of Oxford - Guide to spinning ideas into gold

    Expert advice to help academics set up a spin-off company is offered in a new book by a professor and businessman. The guide, Spin-outs: Creating Businesses from University Intellectual Property, was...

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  4. Virtues hidden in flawed project

    While Michael Worton and the European Science Foundation (ESF) talk until they are "blue in the face" to convince us of the virtues of the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), they are...

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  5. The power of cultural appeal 1

    While English-language universities on the Continent represent additional competition for British universities and private educators of international students, these offshore programmes ignore one of...

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  6. The power of cultural appeal 2

    Your recent article about student experience fails to acknowledge one of the largest student groups in UK higher education, namely part-time students ("Happy to be here", 15 January).With more than...

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  7. Not such a bad habit

    When it comes to Cardinal Newman, Gary Day gives us neither "knowledge" nor "information" ("Get wise to the product", 22 January).Newman didn't coin the expression "knowledge for its own sake" and...

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  8. Pay talks not lectures

    Jocelyn Prudence's latest attack on the University and College Union simply must be responded to (Letters, 22 January). It has taken the Universities and Colleges Employers Association ten months to...

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  9. Profits of industry funding

    So the same tired old arguments are being raised about the industrial funding of research into novel pharmaceuticals at universities as were common when, working for what was Department of Trade and...

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  10. Unfair dismissal 1

    In his recent review of the fifth volume of The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield (Books, 15 January), Jeffrey Meyers deplores what he calls "the atrocious editing of this volume". Isn't this...

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  11. Unfair dismissal 2

    Jeffrey Meyers' review limits itself to glib biographical generalisation, dismissal of the worth of the edition on the basis of occasional errors and omissions and a final dismissal of Katherine...

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  12. Honoured but overlooked

    While we all appreciate that Times Higher Education has a well-known blind spot where academic medicine is concerned, it is pushing even that envelope to say that Wendy Hall was the only female...

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  13. No case to answer

    Roger Brown misjudges the approach of the law and the courts to academic judgment by stating that "in a few years' time, any student who does not get an upper-second degree may take their university...

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