Pair may undercut pack with £2,000 fee
Two universities are considering charging top-up fees of less than £3,000 a year in a move that would shatter the national consensus that all institutions will inevitably charge the maximum. Leeds...
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Cheer for researchers as tax burden is removed Britain’s universities were yesterday celebrating the decision to scrap a tax they said had reduced their chances of turning scientific discoveries into...
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Laurie Taylor column
The new student complaints watchdog - the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education - has paid compensation to students in all of the appeals it has so far upheld. Times Higher, November 26 THE...
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Leader: Testing times for low-fee strategy
By this time next week, the comfortable assumption that any competition in the fast-approaching higher education market would be confined to bursaries and scholarships may have been shattered. Leeds...
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Leader: Focus to save subjects
The hue and cry over the closure of chemistry departments reached such a pitch this week that the Government was forced to bring forward its announcement on subjects of national strategic...
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Have standards hit an iceberg? 1
Alan Bennett's play The History Boys is superbly entertaining but it has a serious core. The new teacher is recruited to show his history class how to cheat the examiner. In a painfully honest...
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Have standards hit an iceberg? 2
Your survey "Caught in a vicious cycle of declining standards" (November 19) presents evidence of widespread dumbing down in academia. There is reason to believe, however, that falling standards are...
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Have standards hit an iceberg? 3
Peter Williams argues (Soapbox, November 26) that there cannot have been any lowering of academic standards in universities because they would risk losing their reputations when we all got to know...
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Have standards hit an iceberg? 4
A lot of academics would agree with Peter Williams that people should be given the opportunity to try to secure higher qualifications. But institutions such as ours that take the risk and accept...
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Have standards hit an iceberg? 5
It was with some surprise that I read a letter from two former employees of Luton University in The Times Higher last week (November 26). Their comments are strange, not least because the changes to...
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Answering back
When I began my PhD at Glasgow University in 1999, I appreciated that the "reality" of researching male age-discrepant/intergenerational sexualities and relationships would likely prove a hotly...
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Core support 1
Contrary to your front page report last week ("Rescue for top-rated staff only", November 26), Exeter University has no plans to close mining engineering courses. The Camborne School of Mines, now...
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Core support 2
"A Government promise to protect nationally important but vulnerable academic subjects may extend only to the top research-intensive university departments." This is encouraging - it suggests that...
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Please save school
The Royal Institute of British Architects views with great concern the proposal by Cambridge University to close its department of architecture ("Thriving school faces the axe", November 26). We...
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Still happy together 1
After reading "Colleges warm to university divorce" (November 26), one might believe that the foundation-degree partnerships that blossomed during the first flush of youth are now characterised by...