How much has higher education changed?
Ellie Bothwell goes through the archives from 45 to five years ago and discovers some recurring themes
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What are you reading? – 27 July 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Laurie Taylor – 27 July 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Long-distance learning: building a university on a South Pacific island
Bernard Leeman, anti-apartheid fighter and peripatetic champion of low-cost rural tertiary education, describes the circuitous route he took to Vanuatu
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Doubt over HEA process: how did we get here?
The basic tenet of “Credibility of UK’s teaching fellowship process under scrutiny” (News, 27 July) is to cast doubt on the reliability of the Higher Education Academy teaching accreditation process...
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Excessively diverted
Jo Johnson, the universities and science minister, and Lord Adonis, the former education minister, have criticised the high salaries of vice-chancellors, suggesting that this is unacceptable in the...
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What Plan B?
I envy those who have the option of leaving academia (“Vocation, vexation, salvation”, Features, 13 July). Women are often more able to make this move than men, but I’m the breadwinner. I was...
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Does not translate
I have always found Felipe Fernández-Armesto’s opinions stimulating, not least because I am often in disagreement, at least partially, with them. In “Translation: steer clear” (Opinion, 13 July), I ...
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Who should have the final say on vice-chancellors’ pay?
Amid fresh criticism of executive remuneration, perhaps universities need to rethink the issue of vice-chancellors’ salaries
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Russia presses ahead with thousands of science job cuts
Forty per cent of state-funded student places to be axed also
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Trump’s historically black colleges initiative runs into trouble
US president struggling to find executive director for scheme, according to reports