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  1. Pearls before swine

    "It's chalk and cheese." That was how our senior manager of external relations, Kirk Swavely, responded to suggestions of an "unfortunate similarity" between the terms of the new L'Oreal...

    #Laurie

  2. Leader: Absence-minded, ill defined

    For all the confusion surrounding the role of professors, one thing's certain: junior staff expect them to do a lot more to help

  3. Cut the branches, try a safer route

    'Transnational' education isn't dying, but it is changing. Jon Marcus reports on Western institutions' moves to mitigate the risks of foreign outposts, thanks to a little help from their hosts

    #Features
    #News
    #World news

  5. The week in higher education

    • The "sea of rage" promised by anarchists before last week's student protest turned into something of a damp squib, with police matching or outnumbering demonstrators. The press treated the event...

    #News
    #The week in HE

  6. From where I sit - Two-way traffic in land of rivers

    After a morning visit to Koya University, situated towards Kurdistan-Iraq's Iranian border, I learned that the main road to Raniya was blocked.Outside the cities, where new roads and buildings mark...

    #From Where I Sit
    #Opinion

  7. Appointments

    University of OxfordJane HumphriesA "number-crunching economic historian" has won the Gyorgy Ranki Biennial Prize, awarded for an outstanding book on European economic history. Jane Humphries,...

    #Appointments
    #People

  8. Command performance

    Professors should provide intellectual leadership, but some incumbents have other priorities or misunderstand their role. Bruce Macfarlane asserts that universities must find a way to get the best...

    #Features

  9. Practical, high-value model for fine art

    The ongoing debate over the future prospects for those entering higher education in England applies to the visual arts as much as any other field. For students aiming to earn their living as visual...

    #Letters

  10. Protecting, not posing

    I write this while struggling, as chair of a local University and College Union committee, to complete the detail of a workload model for my institution and having just closed (partly successfully)...

    #Letters

  11. Difference engines

    I welcome the involvement of Which? in the world of higher education data provision ("Intelligence agency", Letters, 3 November). It would be particularly helpful if Peter Vicary-Smith, the...

    #Letters

  12. Free radical

    In "Are radical journals selling out?" (3 November), Alastair Bonnett failed to mention one of the most popular and influential publications in the field - The Journal for Critical Education Policy...

    #Letters

  13. A moment in The Sun

    I am flattered that a former member of staff recalls my own "Malcolm Grant" moment of notoriety (Letters, 10 November). I remember vainly attempting to convince a sceptical reporter of the viability...

    #Letters

  14. Slim evidence for slander

    I read with interest your coverage of the study suggesting the inverse relationship between teaching quality, broad educational student-focused outcomes and associated university rankings ("Topsy-...

    #Letters

  15. Picture imperfect

    I was bewildered by the photo illustrating your article on the portrayal of Palestinians in Israeli history books ("Schooled in distrust: a textbook case of indoctrination?", 10 November). I fail to...

    #Letters