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Students at Manchester University get the best careers advice in the UK, according to a survey of graduate recruiters. The Association of Graduate Recruiters/Barkers national survey found that...
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Lib Dems replace Willis
Ed Davey, MP for Kingston and Surbiton, has been appointed the Liberal Democrats' education spokesman in a post-election reshuffle, replacing Phil Willis. The Tories announced that Stephen O'Brien,...
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Clarification
On April 29, we reported that delegates at the Association of University Teachers' annual conference agreed "by just four votes" that the union would boycott Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities in Israel...
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London Met set for race probe
London Metropolitan University faces the possibility of prosecution under race relations legislation after a complaint to equality watchdogs by lecturers' union Natfhe. Natfhe has written to the...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Star staff cosseted in bid to up RAE rating" - The Times Higher, May 13 Are you perfectly comfortable, Dr Mainchance? Or should Maureen ring reception for an extra pillow? No thanks, Lapping. I'm...
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Alan Ryan
Continually changing ministers and endlessly rolling out initiatives do little but cause chaos in higher education You'd think that a government that insisted that its priorities were "education,...
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Leader: A target to boost lifelong learning
The Queen's Speech made no mention of higher education and Ruth Kelly's first post-election interview on the subject carries little hint of action. Cue a sigh of relief from most of those working in...
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Leader: It pays to think business
A theologian with an eye for the market takes over at the Arts and Humanities Research Council while Cambridge philosophers advise BT on how to instil loyalty in their customers. Is nowhere free from...
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More roadblock than roadmap 1
The attempt by Hilary and Steven Rose to justify a boycott of Israeli academics highlights the core fallacy of their cause - the comparison between the apartheid regime in South Africa and the Arab-...
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More roadblock than roadmap 2
The boycott against Israel is no more racist than the boycott against South Africa was. It is disgraceful that opposition to the Israeli state's racist policies is equated with anti-Semitism. An...
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More roadblock than roadmap 3
Surely the Association of University Teachers should boycott Palestinian universities, because they sponsor and incite hate and terror, and Arab academics coming from countries that have largely...
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More roadblock than roadmap 4
I'm glad the AUT is reconsidering its boycott of Israeli universities. But it comes too late for me. After almost 20 years' membership I resigned two years ago because the union was devoting more...
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More roadblock than roadmap 5
Although I can understand the AUT's frustrations over Israel, we ought not to attack fellow academics wherever they are - Israel, Zimbabwe, the US, North Korea or Iran - but by contact and example...
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More roadblock than roadmap 6
Stephen Howe (Features, May 6) believes that the activities of which Bar-Ilan and Haifa universities stand accused are far too complicated for the AUT conference to judge. This kind of argument is...
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Unqualified critiques? 1
For one keen to trumpet academic values and the need for critical debate, it is a pity that Bob Brecher doesn't demonstrate them in his own column (Working Knowledge, May 13). He generalises...