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  1. Back from the brink

    A name change - along with the inauguration of a new chancellor this week - is intended to mark the start of a new era for the former Thames Valley University. Rebecca Attwood delves into the...

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  2. Metric misses the full picture of PhD study (1 of 3)

    Once again the crude metric of a PhD "completion rate" is used to assess quality ("Poor English a key diagnosis for failure to make PhD grade", 5 May).Blinkered uniformity is often sought for...

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  3. Metric misses the full picture of PhD study (2 of 3)

    Recruiting international students with a substandard quality of written English is a dilemma that is commonly faced by tutors working in UK higher education.But this crisis is most pronounced in the...

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  4. Metric misses the full picture of PhD study (3 of 3)

    The problem of poor PhD completion rates may not be language proficiency alone. Undergraduate degrees in many Asian and Middle Eastern countries do not adequately prepare students to think critically...

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  5. Whither London Met? (1 of 2)

    Malcolm Gillies, the vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, neatly encapsulates what is wrong with so much of the student-as-consumer model when it is applied to the function of a...

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  6. Whither London Met? (2 of 2)

    I wish to alert readers to how cuts are being imposed on London Metropolitan University's Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Languages and Education (Hale). Of 14 subject areas, only six will remain, in...

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  7. Sophisticated chuckles

    Chris Duke thinks I'm naive to suggest that it is the duty of academia to laugh at government while still taking its money ("Impact joke is on us", Letters, 28 April).But I did not say that we should...

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  8. Ranter's charter

    Congratulations to Fred Inglis on his wonderful parody of Leavisism ("Words as weapons", 5 May). He has perfectly captured its paranoid rhetoric and updated the wilful ignorance of anything F.R....

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  9. A share of learning

    As privatisation encroaches upon the UK higher education sector, should the academic and administrative staff of universities be encouraged to buy their university in order to keep their destiny in...

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  10. Leg-up to the professions

    City University London's Cass Business School runs a BSc in accounting and finance in collaboration with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) that offers students...

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  11. Ale - a class apart (1 of 2)

    Anthony Rodriguez (Letters, 5 May) may well have a point about discriminatory admission practices at female-only colleges (after all, history demonstrates nothing if not the unwarranted dominance of...

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  12. Ale - a class apart (2 of 2)

    I see that a University of Cambridge study has concluded that formal dining in the academy not only educates people on how to pass the port but is also central to the maintenance of the class system...

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  13. Film review: Casino Jack

    A flawed satire of the moral duplicity at the heart of American politics wins Duncan Wu's qualified praise

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  14. TV review: Exile

    Families can go to extreme lengths to keep their secrets, finds Gary Day, but the truth will out

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  15. Richard Holmes, 1946-2011

    A scholar, soldier and unlikely television star has died.Richard Holmes was born in Staffordshire on 29 March 1946 and educated at Forest School in northeast London before going on to read history at...

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