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University Campus Suffolk, a unique collaboration between the universities of East Anglia and Essex, first welcomed students in August 2007. It recently opened a dedicated teaching building, designed...
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Think 'creatively' to help white-collar unemployed
Universities have warned that their finances will be tight during the credit crunch after the Government called on them to direct a £120 million VAT "windfall" towards helping workers who lose their...
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From where I sit - New hopes raise old questions
When the creation of a university for 5,000 students makes headlines in an area of the world where 90 per cent of the billion-strong population do not have access to higher education, cynics must...
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Who will you vote for?
Final votes are now being cast in the election for the new President of Universities UK. Here are the mission statements from all three candidates'I'm your man,' says Uttoxeter's Lumpkin"I believe it...
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All this will I give unto thee
Felipe Fernández-Armesto takes a farewell look from Tufts' hilltop campus
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Guest leader: A timely technical advance
University-led institutes involving employers and councils can give vocational education the status it deserves, says Ron Dearing
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Norman Barry, 1944-2008
Norman Barry, one of the country's leading exponents of classical liberalism, has died.
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Rapid results culture undermines quality 1
Universities that require - or strongly pressure - students to submit their PhDs within three years of admission do a disservice to their students and undermine the credibility of the British PhD ("...
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Rapid results culture undermines quality 2
Isn't the death of the original, ambitious PhD just a case of "joined-up thinking", by which students are perfectly prepared for a profession where pressure to publish for the research assessment...
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Minority report 1
Majid Yar complains that academics from overseas are often met with discriminatory attitudes from students about their "funny accents", while noting his pronounced South Walian accent (Letters, 4...
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Minority report 2
I could probably have this argument with my esteemed new colleague, Majid Yar (Letters, 4 December), in the corridors of Hull, but it seems to me that, pace his welcome appointment, the key issue is...
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Ring leading research
I was pleased to see Ian Conrich's review of our book Watching the Lord of the Rings (4 December), but I was puzzled by some aspects of it. Conrich highlights, as though it were somehow inappropriate...
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An exercise in futility 1
It is perhaps a little too late in the day to discover such problems as difficulties of comparing a piece of medical research with a piece of economics research ("RAE results may not reflect true...
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An exercise in futility 2
With the RAE results due, the media are likely readying themselves to compute and publish corresponding league tables. However it is far from clear how, or even if, this can be done in any fair and...
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No merger on the cards
In your story "Joining forces and market repositioning" (4 December), you report that Queen Margaret University "has been considering merging with Napier University in a bid to tackle its £20 million...