Fellowships down, not out (1 of 3)
David Richards is right to point to the proliferation of teaching fellowships as a blight on junior academics and academia alike ("Teaching fellowships do not benefit anyone", Letters, 30 June):...
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Fellowships down, not out (2 of 3)
David Richards' diatribe in which he makes the magnificently non-evidence-based assertion that university teaching should "always be led by those who are most passionate...about a field" (aka...
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Fellowships down, not out (3 of 3)
Would Richards rather have students taught by people who love their subject but do not want to teach, or by those who are committed to teaching and set high personal and professional standards in...
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Gove is a 'batchelor' boy
I shared the dismay of Tony Gatrell (Letters, 16 June) regarding the spelling of "Perfoming Arts" and "Carribean Studies" in the posters brandished by protesting London Metropolitan University...
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Film review: The Princess of Montpensier
A routine costume-drama story is transformed by the casting, writing and direction, says Duncan Wu
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TV review: The Shadow Line
The brain's ability to remember and make sense of our past reflects our deeper needs, says Gary Day
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Barbara Scholz, 1947-2011
The choice between "learning and earning" was always an easy one for Barbara Scholz, whose passion for academia and the pursuit of knowledge was a constant throughout her life.Born in Ohio in 1947,...
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Campus round-up
Kingston UniversityPenny for your causeDesign students have turned their talents to developing a new way of donating to charity. The scheme designed by Helen Parry and Stuart Kench at Kingston...
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Odds and quads
These lantern slides are among the treasures of the little-known Alfred Denny Museum at the University of Sheffield's department of animal and plant sciences.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Who would want to be in the driving seat on the road to nowhere?
With its brittle certainty, uncertainty and risky punts, the White Paper will win few hearts, especially among students, says Sir David Watson
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7 July 2011
This little piggy got £27,000… - Can empowering students make a higher education market work?
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Whispering City: Rome and Its Histories, by R.J.B. Bosworth
Visitors to Rome typically notice precisely what they have come to see, namely its classical, early Church, Renaissance and Baroque monuments and vestiges
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Private college announces sub-£6k fees for undergraduate degrees
One of the only private providers with taught degree-awarding powers has announced it is to offer its full-time undergraduate degrees for a maximum of £6,000 from 2012-13.