To serve the public (2 of 2)
Universities play a key role in providing many professional qualifications but Jonathan Shepherd rightly highlights the need for graduate "practitioner-scientists" doing real-world research in our...
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Widen the net, Oxbridge (1 of 2)
Miles Hewstone is right to agonise about whether Oxbridge selection mechanisms are error-free ("Selection mechanism", 3 January), but what about the students who never apply in the first place? If...
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Widen the net, Oxbridge (2 of 2)
A mathematical model to predict the future success of Oxbridge interviewees might somehow have to account not only for points scored by talking the right talk during interview but any irrational...
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Of little assurance
The idea that there is universal support in the sector for an insurance scheme to protect institutions from the fallout of UK Border Agency decisions is erroneous ("Insurance against UK Border raids...
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Croeso from the UKBA
Patrick McGhee ("Predictive text", 3 January) begins his imaginative forecast for 2013 with news of a new requirement from the UK Border Agency for student entry into the UK: demonstrating fluency in...
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UCU united
It was with interest that we read Fawzi Ibrahim's article "A house divided cannot stand" (20 December) on his perceptions of the state of the University and College Union.A healthy union contains...
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THE podcast: 10 January 2013 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanNews editor Simon Baker, deputy news editor John Morgan and reporter Jack Grove join Chris Parr on this week’s THE podcast to discuss some of the highlights from the latest...
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Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger
Shahidha Bari commends an expert guide to figures of foreignness from Coleridge to 9/11
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Senior Tory attacks Willetts' 'latent snobbishness'
David Willetts, the universities and science minister, has been attacked by a Tory colleague for showing "snobbishness" on university access and perpetuating an "authoritarian elitist fantasy" in his...
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Hesa to release 'contextual' staff data for REF
The proportion of staff submitted by each unit of assessment to the 2014 research excellence framework will become clear for the first time after the Higher Education Statistics Agency announced it...
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'Fearlessly independent' judge to mark Ebdon's work
The government has appointed a reviewer to assess any appeals by universities against decisions taken by Les Ebdon, the director of fair access.
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Bristol-Kyoto symposium aims to boost UK-Japan links
A university will this week welcome 90 academics from a single Japanese institution in what thought to be the biggest international symposium of its kind held in the UK.
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Coalition review focuses on universities' economic role
The coalition government has praised universities as "the driving force behind our increasingly high-tech, knowledge-based economy" in its mid-term review.
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Cara calls for urgent support for Syrian academics
The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (Cara) has called for urgent support to be given to Syrian academics and students caught up in the country’s civil war.
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Former UK-based researcher found guilty of misconduct
A former researcher at the universities of Glasgow and Liverpool has been found guilty of serious scientific misconduct by his previous university in Singapore.