Delusions of languor
As we go to press, we learn with deep regret of the institutional confinement of Professor F.R. Beavis, Head of our Department of English and Related Studies.It appears that this most unfortunate...
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The week in higher education
• The opportunity for a headline about students living the Hi-de-Hi! life was too much to resist when it emerged that Edge Hill University was scoping out a Pontins holiday camp in search of...
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Leader: Remember this - but not that
We need a way to archive the web for the future while ensuring that people are not lost in 'data shadows' or digital doppelgängers
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From where I sit - Gems in the research scrapheap
An English-language journal has recently been launched in Germany that focuses on "failed" research. That is, it publishes material rejected by mainstream journals because it did not yield the...
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Appointments
Kingston UniversityYannis GeorgellisAn economist who specialises in the pursuit of happiness has been appointed director of the Centre for Research in Employment, Skills and Society at Kingston...
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Tell students what you can do for them - but be honest, says new UUK head
The new president of Universities UK has warned institutions against resorting to marketing “hyperbole” in their efforts to attract students.Speaking to Times Higher Education in advance of his...
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Speedier alternative to 'obsolete' OIA unveiled
Plans to establish a fast-track alternative to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education have been backed by a dispute resolution body.The independent Improving Dispute...
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'Hippocratic' oath for academy could well do harm, swears scholar
Proposed vows are said to be status anxiety-driven and inimical to free thought. Jack Grove reports
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My other half
A typographical slip gave Lois S. Bibbings an authorial sex change, and while she pondered textual 'gender reassignment', her alter ego made off with her kudos. Still, she can't help liking the...
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A conspiracy against academic freedom (1 of 2)
I was quietly reading Times Higher Education when all of a sudden a gang of some 100 frenzied historians appeared, intent, it seemed, on riotously attacking a certain David Starkey ("Starkey's a...
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A conspiracy against academic freedom (2 of 2)
Geoffrey K. Pullum's otherwise praiseworthy article, "Inflammatory language" (18 August), was marred by his comparison of David Starkey to the now infamous rose-quaffing Croydon looters.Verbally...
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Reach out and touch them
Following your article on the Higher Education Policy Institute's analysis of the higher education White Paper ("Elaborate, ineffectual and unfair: the White Paper takes a beating", 18 August), I...
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Of the Book, but not on ours
The article "Ditch 'baggage' at door of Muslim-Jewish course" (25 August) is in error in two respects. First, the University of Cambridge has not, as reported, approved the master's course referred...
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Rank and filed
"The mile is no longer a mile" (Letters, 25 August) and in a sense, that is as it should be. The job of A levels is to rank students in order: a place in tertiary education is (in the main) a case of...
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Brand UK: so last century
In November, I and thousands of students from Wales and Scotland travelled to London to march in solidarity with our English neighbours against the reckless actions of the Westminster government,...