State-sanctioned inequality
Your comprehensive coverage of the “wealth check” of UK higher education institutions highlights the blindingly obvious: namely, that there is increasing institutional inequality across the system (“...
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Simple plan far too simple
I was not at the conference at which “expert” Tom Green made his remarks about university marketing, so perhaps I missed the insights from which his recommendations were derived (“Message received:...
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Right-sided spooks
I thank Matthew Feldman for his generally positive review of my book British Writers and MI5 Surveillance, 1930-1960 (Books, 4 April), but certain areas require correction. For one, he is inaccurate...
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Correlation limitations
The fact that at the institutional level, total quality-related (QR) cash from the Higher Education Funding Council for England and total research council funding are highly correlated is neither new...
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Peer performance
Further to the article by Alan Ryan (“The best of the lot”, Opinion, 28 March): isn’t he describing the House of Lords as was? A random selection of the good, the bad and the indifferent - with peers...
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Middle class? Moi?
Source: AlamyClass acts: a little taste of the finer thingsNew research findings from Dr Nicola Ingram of the University of Bath show that some middle-class students at the post-1992 University of...
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Campus round-up - 18 April 2013
Source: ReutersPeak performance in aid of breath of lifeScientists at a UK university are working in one of the harshest environments on Earth to further vital research into the effects of low oxygen...
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V-c applies military lessons in leadership
The Army’s teamwork ethos shaped the management style of the University of Essex’s Anthony Forster
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Odds and quads - 18 April 2013
These items come from the archive of the Nobel prizewinning novelist J. M. Coetzee, which was acquired by the Harry Ransom Center, the humanities research library and museum at the University of...
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UCL Institute of Making’s cabinet of curiosities
Research club offers hands-on access to fascinating materials from aerogel to baby teeth
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Old Bailey Online: 10 years of making crime pay for scholars
Vast digital archive of court records 1674-1913 is ‘dead people’s big data’
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A stage for the battle-scarred to tell their tales
Theatre director uses fellowship to give dramatic shape to the stories of ex-combatants
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Bumps on Dubai’s university highway
Western universities are refining their offerings as the city-state’s economy gets back on track. Jack Grove reports from the UAE
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Grant winners - 18 April 2013
Economic and Social Research CouncilDFID-ESRC Growth Research ProgrammeAward winner: Christopher WoodruffInstitution: University of WarwickValue: £361,028Training, productivity and upgrading:...
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Appointments - 18 April 2013
University of CambridgeDavid MacKayDavid MacKay, who has recently been appointed the Regius professor in engineering at the University of Cambridge, said that despite a brief phase when he had other...