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  1. Not all outcomes are desirable ones (3 of 4)

    Frank Furedi is correct. Learning outcomes should be got rid of. For a start, the name is ambiguous: is "learning" a verb or an adjective? Should students merely learn the outcomes? Any course or...

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  2. Not all outcomes are desirable ones (4 of 4)

    Frank Furedi's characterisation of the woeful limitations of the mechanical and formulaic method of assessing learning outcomes accords well with my own considerable experience as a university...

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  3. Free-spirited contrarians

    In expressing doubts about the wisdom of allowing private, for-profit universities ("Charitable status, shareholder suspicion: Buckingham v-c's for-profit fears", News, 29 November), Terence Kealey,...

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  4. Private put-offs

    I agree with Kenneth Smith ("Data to end quota debate", Letters, 29 November) that we could simply look at finals data for the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge to see if we can...

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  5. Minority report

    The attainment gap between white and black and minority ethnic (BME) students ("Mind, don't dismiss, the BME attainment gap", News, 22 November) is of great concern but sadly not a huge surprise....

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  6. Words louder than action

    Queen Mary, University of London welcomes the University and College Union's decision to cancel its strike and to join other trade unions in accepting our standing invitation to help review the...

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  7. Master's crisis

    As outlined in the article "Three wishes: NUS urges trio of loans to help poor postgraduates" (News, 22 November), a real crisis in master's programmes is approaching. As well as the issues over...

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  8. Statistically speaking

    Tim Moore and Woody Caan (Letters, 25 October) describe statistics as a common language, invaluable for pooling knowledge and precise in a world of uncertainties. But if the world of organisations...

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  9. Secure in the knowledge

    In the past two weeks Times Higher Education has been running with two interesting items that appear to be completely separate. One concerns the Council for the Defence of British Universities ("...

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  10. Something to hide?

    Keith Flett surely dissembles when he suggests that his beard (a removable statement) is the reason he has never been approached by MI-something (Letters, 29 November): his missives to Times Higher...

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  11. Research data win exemption from FoI Act

    The government has agreed to introduce an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act to prevent the premature disclosure of research data.

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  13. John Gill, editor, Times Higher Education

    Enter the disruptive dragon

    Moocs promise to strike at the heart of traditional higher education delivery, but it needn’t mean the chop for universities

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  14. Credential crisis

    Universities’ monopoly on certifying expertise is at risk, warns Tamson Pietsch

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