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  1. The week in higher education

    • The head of the private New College of the Humanities has said that the institution, which will charge tuition fees of £18,000 a year, will interview candidates rather than determine entry based...

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    #The week in HE

  2. From where I sit - Are PhD students being served?

    German universities may be focused on improving their research, but doctoral students have highlighted serious flaws in their teaching.The Deutsche Universitätszeitung (German University Newspaper),...

    #From Where I Sit
    #Opinion

  3. Appointments

    Washington University in St LouisStephen LegomskyStephen Legomsky, John S. Lehmann university professor at the School of Law at Washington University in St Louis, has been appointed chief counsel for...

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    #People

  4. Oxford v-c urges support for postgrad loan plan

    The vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford has called for "serious consideration" to be given to a proposal for a government-backed loan for taught postgraduate students.

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    #University of Oxford

  6. On the shoulders of giants

    Matthew Reisz talks to the movers and shakers of the past 40 years who made Times Higher Education what it is today

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  7. Accentuate negatives to identify 'sinners'

    One is struck by the methodology of league tables, both national and international, being based entirely on positives ("US muscle reigns, but there's a world of difference in value", 6 October). What...

    #Letters

  8. Control is just an illusion

    Fred Inglis is bloody angry about the state of truth in the academy ("Economical with the actualité", 6 October). Good for him, it's about time somebody was.However, he is wrong when he depicts the...

    #Letters

  9. This is hardly reassuring

    Anthony McClaran's defence of "educational oversight" ("Oversight is essential", Letters, 6 October) sits uneasily alongside your report "'Visa scam' at college linked to University of Wales" (www....

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  10. New and in tune

    Many traditional universities may be ignoring market trends and thereby endangering their future student numbers ("Exclusive elite fails to attract poorer students", 29 September).The most recent...

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  11. Ouroboros finance

    David Willetts claimed at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester that in future most universities will not need to comply with European Union procurement directives because they will be less...

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  12. In scholarship we trust

    Terence Karran's fascinating article on academic freedom ("Unshackled minds help institutions to conquer the greatest heights", 29 September) is nonetheless missing a crucial concept: trust - trust...

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  13. A pox on all their hustings

    As a current student, a former Liberal Democrat voter and a very vocal critic of the coalition and its plans for higher education (and indeed the rest of the country), I should probably agree with...

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  14. Actions speak louder

    I note that among the candidates aiming to be the University and College Union's general secretary next year, the incumbent is a member of the Labour Party while a well-placed challenger from UCU...

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  15. Highly irritable

    Yvonne H. Howell gives a rightly enthusiastic review of Nikolai Krementsov's A Martian Stranded on Earth: Alexander Bogdanov, Blood Transfusions, and Proletarian Science, his stimulating study of the...

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