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  1. Fit for purpose

    Wes Streeting is correct in saying that the description of students as customers is not an accurate reflection of their relationships with universities and lecturers - "education is not a commodity...

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  2. Boycott clarification

    Your report "No boycott vote till '08" (July 13) was not quite accurate. The University and College Union strategy and finance committee substantially approved a paper detailing plans to implement...

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  3. Strange bedfellows

    My parents arrived in this country from southern Ireland in the 1960s, and they later told me of advertisements that read: "No Blacks or Irish need apply." So I was shocked to read the advertisement...

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  4. Low-risk Lancaster

    Lancaster University was one of the 46 institutions listed in national newspaper stories that made reference to a historical list of universities being monitored by the Higher Education Funding...

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  5. Are CETLs a waste or a wonder? 1

    At last, two articles in The Times Higher that start to critique the sector's misguided and wasteful infatuation with excellence ("Centres of excellence fail to transform teaching" and Alan Skelton's...

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  6. Are CETLs a waste or a wonder? 2

    The Times Higher has done academics a disservice by misreporting a study by Pat Young of the University of the West of England. The investigation is not, and was never intended to be, an evaluation...

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  7. Business as usual 1

    Bill Rammell, the Higher Education Minister, is reported as saying that financial contributions by employers towards the cost of higher education qualifications will be central to the success of the...

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  8. Business as usual 2

    Bill Rammell's insistence that there is a continuing place for "pure academic activities" in higher education is welcome as far as it goes. Yet his immediate and emphatic qualification that most...

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  9. A little respect 1

    In my experience as an editor, peer reviewers generally provide a high-quality service. Now Marc Hauser and Ernst Fehr want to punish those who fail to meet deadlines ("Make all see that deadline...

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  10. A little respect 2

    I read with amusement your article in which a psychologist and an economist tied themselves in knots trying to figure out how to persuade academics to review articles in a more timely fashion. The...

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  11. Master of his crafts

    Polymath academic Richard Sennett tells Huw Richards about his latest book, a eulogy to craftsmanship in an age of 'impatient capital' An academic colleague once said that Richard Sennett has "a...

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  12. Dr Dai LLemmer

    A number of readers have called the new "Dr Dai Llemmer confidential premium rate telephone hotline(TM)", which provides exclusive real-time advice from Dai to those with the requisite credit rating...

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  13. When merit means nothing

    The shift to mass higher education has created an 'opportunity trap' in which students' rising expectations for a career meet the reality of a static jobs market. Phillip Brown considers the...

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  14. Project Grant

    Deadline: 26/10/2007

    #Funding opportunities