Wholly effective
The letters by Robin Parker and by Sally Hunt ("Fear of failure?", 16 February) on the Review of Higher Education Governance in Scotland, chaired by Ferdinand von Prondzynski, point to the need for a...
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A levels are A-OK
In response to the article "Do not throw that IB pearl away, richer than the impoverished A level" (9 February), I say, look to the extended project, vice-chancellors, not the IB: there you will find...
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Polyglots go free
While I wholeheartedly agree with Tony Chafer's views on the decline of language degrees ("Mind our languages", 16 February), he has missed one relevant fact: students who go abroad on the Erasmus...
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Unnatural disaster
Malcolm Gillies, the vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, reports a "tsunami of late applications" as the reason why London Met is facing a fine of up to £6 million from the Higher...
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Ring out the old
"Policemen look so young these days"; thus said my ancient mother. Now it is editors ("Times Higher Education announces new editor", 16 February). Surely you have not stooped to Photoshopping, like...
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Film review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Will Brooker is seduced by a romcom with a starry cast of actors of a certain age who give powerful, sexy performances
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TV review: The Mrs Bradley Mysteries: The Rising of the Moon
Adela Bradley, a glamorous, more saucy version of Miss Marple, is brought vividly to life, says Gary Day
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Don Varley, 1924-2012
For more than 40 years, Don Varley was a key member of the academic and student community at the University of Nottingham, as a senior lecturer, vice-dean of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences,...
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Campus round-up
Queen Mary, University of LondonRising in the EastA £36 million graduate centre is to be built after being given the go-ahead by planners. Set to open in 2015, the centre at Queen Mary, University of...
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23 February 2012
Top-up credits - Open courseware and the challenge to traditional campus education
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The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan, by George Steiner
Tom Palaima lauds a reflection on the millennia-old struggle to express original ideas through language
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UK is citation sensation in physics
The quality of US physics has been surpassed by that of both Canada and the UK over the past decade, new analysis commissioned by the Institute of Physics suggests.
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Promote a benign state of mind, peacekeeper urges global academy
Universities must foster in their students the “benevolent and amiable temper of mind” defined by the novelist Henry Fielding, a leading international peacekeeper told the Association of...
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Inside Higher Ed: Attack of the memes
By Steve Kolowich, for Inside Higher Ed