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The week in higher education
• Sally Hunt, the University and College Union's general secretary, has vowed to fight "fewer battles" while focusing on "members' priorities" after she was re-elected by a landslide. Ms Hunt...
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From where I sit - Stockholm syndrome
I am an immigrant, again, and this time I don't speak the language. I am a well-paid immigrant, with a very good job and helpful colleagues. And I am taking language lessons, for free, courtesy of...
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Odds and quads
John Gay's celebrated "ballad opera", The Beggar's Opera, was written in 1728. These striking wax figures - of Elsie French as Mrs Peachum and Violet Marquesita as Lucy Lockit - were created by...
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Appointments
University of OxfordGordon ClarkThe University of Oxford has appointed Gordon Clark, Halford Mackinder professor of geography, director of its Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment....
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Transatlantic traffic
When it comes to the academy, influence flows both ways, argues Alan Ryan
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Film review: Trishna
Had it really looked east and dared to dance, this film could have offered so much more, says Philip Dodd
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Satisfaction and its discontents
The National Student Survey puts pressure on lecturers to provide 'enhanced' experiences. But, argues Frank Furedi, the results do not measure educational quality and the process infantilises...
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Imperial echoes
'Internationalisation' is the trend du jour for universities, but they would do well to consider its earlier manifestation during the British Empire's long 19th century. As Tamson Pietsch explains,...
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Private values and for-profit standards (1 of 3)
We at Regent's College were delighted by the breadth and depth of the private sector coverage in last week's Times Higher Education ("Enigma variations", 1 March). We share the concern that many...
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Private values and for-profit standards (2 of 3)
Recent reports in THE have highlighted concerns about the standards of the private providers designated for student support ("QAA in the dark on 63 of 94 private providers", 23 February; "Enigma...
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Private values and for-profit standards (3 of 3)
Carl Lygo, principal of BPP University College, makes a serious category error in equating for-profit universities (under investigation in the US but promoted by the UK government as a solution to a...
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Two brains, both wrong
David Willetts disagrees with Stefan Collini that the government lacks an understanding of the public value of the university ("A mistaken conception that the university system is under attack", 1...
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Polar apposite
David Willetts' recent trip to the Antarctic Peninsula deserves elaboration ("Journey into the unknown", 1 March). While the minister might have enjoyed glancing at an emperor penguin or two, his...
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Open, moral and pragmatic
In response to Timothy Gowers ("Occupy publishing", 16 February) (http://thecostofknowledge.com), Elsevier's David Clark argues that "there is little merit in throwing away a system that works" ("If...