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  2. The week in higher education

    • As the dust settled after the UK riots, higher education did not escape unscathed. Among those caught up in the unrest was University of Exeter student Laura Johnson, who has been charged with five...

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  3. From where I sit - In praise of undergraduates

    Early in June at the University of Reading, I marked my last undergraduate exam paper - 47 years after I graded my first, as a callow "teaching Fellow" at the University of Sydney. The final script...

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    #Opinion

  4. Appointments

    University of LeicesterHelen YaffeA historian who stood in anti-apartheid picket lines in London in the 1980s is now researching the movement as part of her new role at the University of Leicester....

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  6. The answers aren't online

    It takes more than 140 characters to raise a mob, says Kevin Fong

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  7. D-Day (but hopefully A*-Day)

    The A-level results are here again: cue the usual laments that exams are getting easier and the scramble for places is becoming ever more intense. But is any of it true? Jack Grove finds out

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  8. Dead reckoning

    It's neither ghoulish nor foolish to hold tutorials over one's own coffin, philosopher Peter Vardy insists. Students like to tackle the big questions in life - and none is bigger than death

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  9. Never mind the contact width, feel the quality (1 of 3)

    I read with interest Paul Ramsden's views on attempts to measure the quality of university provision by contact hours and class sizes ("When I grow up, I want to be spoon-fed", 11 August). This...

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  10. Never mind the contact width, feel the quality (2 of 3)

    Paul Ramsden ("When I grow up, I want to be spoon-fed") raises a number of questions, some of which are addressed by Ann Mroz ("Hours and hours of reckoning", Leader, 11 August). However, two things...

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  11. Never mind the contact width, feel the quality (3 of 3)

    I couldn't agree more with Ann Mroz: it's not about how much time you spend with students, but what you do with it that counts.However, the bean counters are in the field already, so might I suggest...

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  12. No degrees in compassion

    I read with increasing concern Ruth Davies' letter ("Angels with dirty hands", 11 August).Let me register my interest. I trained and practised as a state registered nurse from 1968 to 1974, working...

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  13. A simple reminder

    Your article "We can't afford to be too choosy" (11 August) illustrates how easy it is to build a sensational story out of a private email.It might be useful, though, to set the record straight. Yes...

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  14. This is no accident

    Ann Mroz's analysis of the effects of recent government policies (AAB and core-margin places) is correct: they will lead to the cementing of the new English Ivy League's exclusivity, "setting back...

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  15. Pedagogic formula

    Alan Ryan is a wise man, but his teaching formula has the wrong pig by the tail ("Too much information", 11 August). Try this: Teaching = Research minus Scholarship. If lectures and small-group...

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