Satisfied customers
Readers of “Posh spice up CVs to gain edge at post-92s” (News, 11 April), which covered the status anxiety of some upper-middle-class students over not getting into Russell Group universities, might...
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Digital measurement
I can only thank Times Higher Education for consistently transmitting from the academic blogosphere via its THE Scholarly Web. I have been writing loosely academic perspectives on my own blog since...
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The market has spoken
John Duffy, registrar of the University of Sussex (my workplace), argues that we have a moral obligation to give our students better services at a better price in return for their high fees (“A...
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Best kept secret is out
The potential for collaborative procurement to help close the gap between projected income and costs could be described as the sector’s best kept secret, so it was refreshing to see it revealed in...
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Darwinian selection
The proposed arrangements for research publication in light of the Finch report would seem to suggest a new hierarchy for academics. We already appear to have goldfinches and greenfinches, but what...
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Red is the colour
In “Resolving to do better” (Opinion, 11 April), Rob Behrens attributes the following quote to Mao Zedong: “It doesn’t matter whether the cat is black or white as long as it catches the mouse.”That...
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UCU defends LSE protections
Union takes on management over ‘academic annex’ reforms
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Campus round-up - 25 April 2013
Fit to printA group of illustration students are bringing traditional printmaking skills back to the defunct press room of a local newspaper. The former press room at the Bournemouth Echo building,...
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News in brief - 25 April 2013
MoocsAnd NovoEd makes threeA third massive open online course platform developed by academics from Stanford University has been launched. Following in the footsteps of Coursera and Udacity, NovoEd,...
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News in brief - 25 April 2013
United StatesHoly trinityA US accreditation body has approved the merger of two faith colleges with a university. The Higher Learning Commission gave the go-ahead for the Assemblies of God...
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Odds and quads - 25 April 2013
This letter, signed by Charles de Gaulle, was sent to Michael D. Jones, founder of the Welsh colony in Patagonia in the 1860s, and now forms part of the archives at Bangor University devoted to the...
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Mergers, acquisitions and decades of constant change
Research paints picture of permanent revolution in sector since mid-1990s
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United front could fight UK visa battles
Australian approach offers lessons for UK, forum hears
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Critical distance, but not too far
When I served as the head of an English department in North West England, I was faced with a number of what may politely be called “challenges”. But one challenge I did not face was figuring out what...