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  1. The week in higher education

    • The University and College Union may suspend its work-to-rule industrial action on pension cuts in pre-1992 universities after talks with employers. Sally Hunt, the UCU general secretary, wrote to...

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    #The week in HE

  2. Leader: Battle won, but maybe not the war

    With the government poised to shelve its HE bill, opponents of pro-market plans have scored a victory, however partial or fleeting

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    #Opinion

  3. From where I sit - Lift off, in more ways than one

    Financial reports in the media around the world take a remarkably similar approach, or so it seems from China. The slick graphics that daily illustrate the swings in fortune of the FTSE or Hang Seng...

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    #Opinion

  4. Appointments

    University of PortsmouthAndy ThorpeAn economist whose previous research has focused on such indelicate topics as methane emissions from animals has been appointed associate dean for research at the...

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    #People

  5. Still room for merit alone?

    Alan Ryan fears for the deserving if US-style admissions make it to the UK

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    #Columnists
    #Opinion

  6. Unplugged

    A university does not need a charter or even walls - open minds are enough, argue groups whose challenges to convention have been invigorated by recent protest movements. Jack Grove reports

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  7. Attributive justice

    With the best of intentions and the worst of outcomes, anonymous marking discredits lecturers and serves students badly. George MacDonald Ross believes greater trust will lead to fairness for all

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  8. Inescapable burden of 'guilty knowledge'

    I read with interest Peter Geoghegan's tale of the Boston College-Belfast Project tapes. While the case has been covered extensively in serious newspapers and blogs, readers relying on his account...

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  9. Wealth and safety

    Keith Vaz is right: the government needs to do everything in its power to reassure international students that we value their presence at our universities - and take their safety when in the UK...

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  10. Pension protection

    At its special meeting last Friday, the national executive committee of the University and College Union rejected the government's heads-of-agreement offer on the Teachers' Pension Scheme. The offer...

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  11. Devastating disengagement

    The University of Sussex's proposal to close its Centre for Community Engagement seems to conflict with the institution's stated aims to widen access and to engage more with the local community. The...

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  12. Detect and instruct

    It would be surprising if many academics believed that there was a "silver bullet" that would eliminate plagiarism through a detection system alone ("Don't count on a 'silver bullet'", 19 January)....

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  13. Compound the error

    In response to the shortage of helium for his research, Ray Dolan, a professor at University College London's Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, suggests that in the long run it might be...

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  14. Rich vision, pretty pattern (1 of 2)

    The anonymous writer of "Poverty of vision pays well" (Letters, 19 January) underestimates the depth of each vice-chancellor's vision, which today far exceeds a mere preoccupation with league tables....

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  15. Rich vision, pretty pattern (2 of 2)

    Four profiles of vice-chancellors' policy advisers ("Who let them in?", 19 January): all young[ish] and female. Hardly a scientific sample, I admit, but the typical UK vice-chancellor: old[er] and...

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