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  2. The week in higher education

    • An attempt to reignite the "Climategate" row with the leak of a second batch of emails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia fell flat. Whereas the release of the...

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  3. From where I sit - State the case for the public good

    It has grown fashionable recently to pronounce that the distinction between public and private colleges and universities is now anachronistic.In Australia, as well as in the UK, we understand all too...

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    #Opinion

  4. Appointments

    London School of EconomicsPaul De GrauweAn economist and former member of the Belgian Parliament has been named the first holder of the John Paulson chair in European political economy at the London...

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  6. Thou shalt not sit on fences

    Academia must follow the Church’s lead in debating ethics, says Malcolm Gillies

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  7. Face value

    University chancellors are a mixed bag of rock stars and actors, politicians and entrepreneurs, but are they mere glad-handing figureheads or can they make a genuine difference to the institution...

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  8. Canary in the coal mine

    Why has the idea of publicly funded higher education crumbled so quickly in England? James Vernon explores the origins of an academic culture that has internalised market rationalities and traces the...

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  9. 'Consumer' right? No, it's the wrong analogy

    After two decades of exposure to the managerial mantra "the student is a consumer", I was intrigued to see the Times Higher Education headline "A bad deal for 'consumers'" (17 November), particularly...

    #Letters

  10. Consensual impact

    In "Dutch lessons for an impact agenda that satisfies all parties" (17 November), Paul Benneworth contrasts the Netherlands' approach to impact with the UK's. The title attracted my attention, not...

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  11. False move

    University College London plans to move "postgraduate teaching and research and accommodation for students and staff...to a new campus next to the Olympic Park...[This] could be used to house...

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  12. Fact-check failure

    Anyone applying for accreditation, a job or even club membership might be expected to have some knowledge of the organisation they want to join.In the case of "for-profit" providers, we might take...

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  13. Open up

    The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield is holding a series of three inaugural lectures. But unlike the other faculties in the institution, and all the other universities I know...

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  14. Dependence daze

    I am disturbed by your report that a target-focused education means that undergraduates struggle in many cases to learn without direct guidance from tutors ("To spoon-feed is not to nurture", 24...

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  15. Universal (bad) grammar

    As a child preparing for my middle school entrance exams, I recall my English teacher patiently instructing us in the avoidance of the run-on sentence. I was therefore surprised to see in a recent...

    #Letters