New talent of all ages
Your article "Nurture new talent, RAE panels say" (22 January) reports that the panels for the 2008 research assessment exercise expressed concern over a lack of funding for "new talent" and the...
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Conduct unbecoming
We are all professors at Leeds Metropolitan University and have been caught up in the controversy surrounding the sudden resignation of Simon Lee, the vice-chancellor. There is one aspect of your...
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Working with differences
Peter Brady ("Dragons and dinosaur views", 22 January) is correct in pointing out that many "cultural differences" programmes are unhelpful or even damaging. However, it is equally important not to...
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Lifetime commitment
Nick Barr ("Fees do not harm access, says architect of policy", 22 January) quotes a researcher in child development as saying that by the age of 18 all the damage is done. Ignatius of Loyola always...
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187345-990.13 writes
You report that every academic in the world should be given a unique identification number ("What's in a name. By digits you will know us", 29 January). Is Laurie Taylor now writing everything in...
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Praise for Gaza protest
As individual members of the UCU Union National Executive Committee, we would like to send solidarity greetings to students at 17 universities who have occupied their colleges in protest over the...
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Analysis backs open-access path for scholarly publishing
Jisc report says publishing landscape should be reshaped to deliver better value, writes John Gill
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Original features
The original women's college at what is now Royal Holloway, University of London, was established by Victorian entrepreneur Thomas Holloway in 1879. The Founder's Building, with its celebrated clock...
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News in brief
Degree standardsMore firsts and upper secondsThe proportion of students gaining a first or an upper-second degree has crept up again, official statistics show. Sixty-one per cent of graduates in 2007...
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20 years ago
The University of Cambridge has become the most spectacular victim of the Economic and Social Research Council's tough policy on PhDs. The council has put the university on its blacklist of...
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Students, get it off your chest
Suggestion boxes could be used to encourage overseas learners to complain. John Gill reports
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Overseas briefing
USBrandeis sells pop art valuablesA university is selling its art collection to help it survive the recession. Brandeis University, Massachusetts, is closing its art museum and selling all 6,000...
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Applicants are denied shelter from the storm
Universities can't cope with higher demand as the recession bites. John Gill and Jon Marcus report
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Ethiopian faculty struggle with harsher workloads
Concerns about heavier workloads and the "managerialist" culture of universities are not the exclusive preserve of the UK - they are also being voiced in Ethiopia.The worries are set out in a paper...
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Man of action
Richard Byrne has been serving in Helmand province, encouraging farmers to grow crops other than the poppy