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  2. Thou shalt not sit on fences

    Academia must follow the Church’s lead in debating ethics, says Malcolm Gillies

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    #Malcolm Gillies
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  3. Face value

    University chancellors are a mixed bag of rock stars and actors, politicians and entrepreneurs, but are they mere glad-handing figureheads or can they make a genuine difference to the institution...

    #Features

  4. Canary in the coal mine

    Why has the idea of publicly funded higher education crumbled so quickly in England? James Vernon explores the origins of an academic culture that has internalised market rationalities and traces the...

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  5. 'Consumer' right? No, it's the wrong analogy

    After two decades of exposure to the managerial mantra "the student is a consumer", I was intrigued to see the Times Higher Education headline "A bad deal for 'consumers'" (17 November), particularly...

    #Letters

  6. Consensual impact

    In "Dutch lessons for an impact agenda that satisfies all parties" (17 November), Paul Benneworth contrasts the Netherlands' approach to impact with the UK's. The title attracted my attention, not...

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  7. False move

    University College London plans to move "postgraduate teaching and research and accommodation for students and staff...to a new campus next to the Olympic Park...[This] could be used to house...

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  8. Fact-check failure

    Anyone applying for accreditation, a job or even club membership might be expected to have some knowledge of the organisation they want to join.In the case of "for-profit" providers, we might take...

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  9. Open up

    The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield is holding a series of three inaugural lectures. But unlike the other faculties in the institution, and all the other universities I know...

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  10. Dependence daze

    I am disturbed by your report that a target-focused education means that undergraduates struggle in many cases to learn without direct guidance from tutors ("To spoon-feed is not to nurture", 24...

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  11. Universal (bad) grammar

    As a child preparing for my middle school entrance exams, I recall my English teacher patiently instructing us in the avoidance of the run-on sentence. I was therefore surprised to see in a recent...

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  14. Paula Allman, 1944-2011

    Through her work in adult education and her force of personality, Paula Allman was "revered by those who dream of and work towards ushering in a better world".Born on 17 January 1944 in Chicago, Dr...

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  15. THE Scholarly Web

    Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

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    #THE Scholarly Web