Â鶹 truths Down Under
Its higher education sector appears healthy, but will Australia's new demand-led system enable it to recruit enough domestic students to beat a drop in overseas recruitment and chronic underfunding?...
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Title fights don't need weight restrictions
As principal and chief executive of a higher education institution that prides itself on the individually focused, formative education it offers its students, I welcome the government's moves, as...
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Bursary conditions
The Office for Fair Access' decisions on access agreements have thrown up some interesting differences in approach between "fee waivers" and "bursaries" ("Will Treasury coffers trump student pockets...
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All together on the REF
We are writing on behalf of the UK's four higher education funding bodies to highlight an error in your article "Equality to score higher in REF" (14 July).In detailing many of the key measures in...
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Falsifiable claims
Simon Marginson states that "subsidising just science-based areas fosters a lopsided 'idea of the university'" ("Liberal thinking", 14 July). His article is the latest to suggest that the arts and...
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Buoyed by Brazil
You recently referred to The Observer's coverage of the visit to Brazil by David Willetts, the universities and science minister, and several UK university representatives (The Week in Higher...
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Surveillance society
Gary Thomas and Nick Peim are right ("In ourselves we trust: if quality is the aim, think outside the tick-box", 14 July): the removal of trust means the removal of responsibility. I would go further...
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Fresh taints
The University of Oxford should be proud of the way in which it has used its Rupert Murdoch chair of language and communication to turn "bad money into good" ("Oxford steadfast on Murdoch links", 14...
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Listen and learn
While I support the general drift of your editorial "Give them incentives to improve" (14 July), I observe that the word "teach" and derivatives of it appear 13 times and "learning" three.The two are...
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Film review: Beginners
A handsome terrier lightens the load for a formidable trio grappling with life's mysteries, finds Duncan Wu
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TV review: Delphi: The Bellybutton of the Ancient World
'Know thyself', says Gary Day, of an examination of Delphi, and finds that applies equally to old rockers
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Zbynek Zeman, 1928-2011
Zbynek Zeman was a Czech scholar who "became very English" without ever forgetting his European roots, and who retained a lifelong passion for communicating the history of central Europe to an...
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Campus round-up
University of SheffieldEngineering expansionPlans for a £20 million new engineering graduate school have been unveiled. The undertaking is the first stage in a major project to remodel and refurbish...
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Odds and quads
During the past Ice Age, this large sabre-toothed cat (Smilodon californicus) ventured into the La Brea pits near Los Angeles, where tar still bubbles to the surface from underground hydro-carbon...