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A Don calling!
Our university has responded quickly to the news that more students are choosing institutions in their own locality so that they can save money by continuing to live at home.Last week saw the...
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An academic redoubt
Felipe Fernández-Armesto salutes the US military's intellectual proving ground
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers.
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Off Piste: Shredded bliss
Is it all over for the signature instrument that is the electric guitar? James Alexander reflects on past glories
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Leader: A personal level must be retained
An intimate learning relationship is much valued. UK universities cannot afford to lose it - despite the pressures of massification
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From where I sit - The mirror cracked
How is the global financial collapse changing the US higher education sector? Andrew Delbanco, director of American studies at Columbia University, offers a sobering answer in the current issue of...
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Sir Neil MacCormick, 1941-2009
Sir Neil MacCormick, world-renowned legal scholar and leading Scottish nationalist, has died.He was born on 7 May 1941 into one of Scotland's leading political families - his father, John, helped...
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Select Committee is effective and quorate
Although as your article "Burden of oversight grows as committee membership drops" (23 April) suggests, the select committee of which we are all members has a wide area to cover, and that we have...
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Far from measurable 1
In his response to my opinion piece on the Arts and Humanities Research Council, its chief executive, Philip Esler, restates the policies of Research Councils UK (cue theme tune of Yes, Minister),...
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Far from measurable 2
While critics of the attempt to measure the economic returns from research are correct in noting that there are benefits from research that may not be measurable by economic activity, economics is by...
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Charities play a strong role
Your coverage of the Research Councils UK and Universities UK review of full economic costs ("FEC review calls for tighter governance and monitoring", 30 April) does not mention its strong statement...
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The search for truth
To take issue with Hugh McLachlan's personal insult and twisted logic (Letters, 30 April) would be to fall into the trap of being diverted from the original point at issue, namely that the...
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Equality and diversity
It is wrong to suggest that social mobility has remained static or that the efforts of Government and universities to promote widening participation have failed ("Community cohesion", 30 April)....
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Qualifying point
Tara Brabazon's article on teaching qualifications ("Blind sides", 30 April) misrepresents my recent argument in these pages, no doubt inadvertently. I did not employ a "piquant inversion of logic"...