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Valerie Sanders has overcome her fear of water - as long as it's the indoor, chlorinated variety - to discover a love of swimming that brings out the worst and the best in her
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The week in higher education
• David Willetts escaped much of the flak in February's row over the appointment of Les Ebdon as director of the Office for Fair Access despite being behind the decision. Two months on, the...
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Leader: It's gone one step beyond
Funding bodies set the impact agenda, but university managers made it into a song and dance that everyone had to follow
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From Where I Sit - New Delhi, we have a problem
How times change. Some five years ago, the buzzword in Indian higher education was expansion. The 2007-12 Five-Year Plan - a mechanism by which, in part, the government formulated its economic policy...
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Odds and quads
This photograph features a scene from the 1904 revival at the Moscow Arts Theatre of Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths, about a group of impoverished Russians living together in a shelter by the...
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Appointments
University of BedfordshireJonathan Black-BranchThe new head of the University of Bedfordshire's School of Law believes it is well placed to be a "formidable force in legal education" after recent...
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Dundee tops THE Student Experience Survey as fees put focus on 'value for money'
Many universities are improving the experience for their students, as our survey shows. And they are achieving it by making the effort to understand their students’ particular needs. Zoë Corbyn...
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The delegate's tale
Christopher Bigsby on conferences’ picaresque perils and delights
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Albert Nobbs
Alison Oram on a tale of two very different 19th-century women who lived as men: the charming butch and the fragile androgyne
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Scientists appeal to cereal killers' reason
Academics at the Rothamsted Research laboratory have launched a direct appeal to protesters not to trash a trial crop of genetically modified wheat at a protest planned for later this month.
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Jobs for the boys
The despair over unemployment that sparked the Arab Spring continues to dog graduates in the region. David Matthews reports from a British Council conference in Morocco that aimed to find solutions
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When owners change, keep check on powers (1 of 2)
The news that a private equity group has purchased the private not-for-profit College of Law (The week in higher education, 19 April) raises again the question of whether there should be stricter...
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When owners change, keep check on powers (2 of 2)
Amid all the media coverage of the "sale" of the College of Law, it is worth trying to pin down the issue of degree-awarding powers as the prime concern of the purchaser.The College of Law as a...
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Democratic deficit
The Higher Education Policy Institute report on universities and devolution produced by Tony Bruce ("Price of avoiding the market: your freedom", 19 April) usefully begins an overdue discussion about...
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Metrics, men and mole rats (1 of 3)
The story "Restructuring metrics could fail to add up" (19 April) highlights the pernicious atmosphere pervading universities that aim to improve their research standing. Does this ever work? Not if...