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  1. Appointments

    De Montfort UniversityJayne BrownA nurse who has dedicated her professional life to improving the care of older people and those with serious illnesses has been appointed professor in palliative care...

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  2. The decline of the American university

    Tom Palaima muses on the Greek ideal of reflective learning, his immigrant grandparents’ dreams of a better life, the GI Bill’s impact on America and the price of allowing universities - once places...

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  3. Beyond the headlines

    Affordability underpins the bad press about London Met, says Malcolm Gillies

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  5. Ripping yarns

    Like it or not, impact is a fact of research life. Paul Manners suggests that many scholars do like it, and with good reason: portraying the dialectic between academic work and the wider world is...

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  6. Salford plan to cut Italian: ma cosa fate?

    Everyone connected with Italian studies has been dismayed to learn that the University of Salford seems intent on phasing out the discipline there over the next three years.The proposal occurs at a...

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  7. Narrow oversight

    In its consultation on the development of a "risk-based" approach to quality assurance, the Higher Education Funding Council for England asserts that the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 "...

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  8. Unworthy sacrifice

    The Open University council recently endorsed in principle a proposal to stop the direct employment of staff in Continental Europe. This affects 102 associate lecturers responsible for directly...

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  9. Anatomy of leadership 1 of 4

    Regarding your articles on vice-chancellors ("Academy rots from the head and it stinks ..."; "... No, sector's big fish a value-for-money dish", Opinion, 10 May): this is just what THE should...

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  10. Anatomy of leadership 2 of 4

    David Bignell, emeritus professor of zoology at Queen Mary, University of London, has offered a polite critique to the ongoing restructuring at the institution ("Madness of metrics", 3 May). His...

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  11. Anatomy of leadership 3 or 4

    The presence in the same issue of an item about the creation of "provost" and "president and rector" posts at Imperial College London (The week in higher education, 3 May) and David Bignell's "...

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  12. Anatomy of leadership 4 of 4

    In his timely indictment of the chancellors of vice, Fred Inglis refers to "the present poisoning of the English mind by crude cupidity" ("Academy rots from the head and it stinks ...", 10 May). I...

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  13. Watching the watchers

    I read with dismay the comments made by the Arts and Humanities Research Council spokesman about my complaints regarding its peer-review standards ("Pianist wants comeback as review hits bum notes",...

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  14. Familiar manoeuvre

    The picture from Kind Hearts and Coronets was perhaps even more appropriate than R.E. Rawles realised ("Tragedy and farce", Letters, 3 May).The incident was based on the death in 1893 of Admiral Sir...

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  15. Second-hand Shavian wit

    "All professions are conspiracies against the laity" ("Amateur ethos", Letters, 10 May) is an idea coined by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations and later used by G.B. Shaw.J.L. Hutton, Department of...

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