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University offers discount on fees for up-front payments The Government's pledge to ensure fair access to universities for students from low-income families in the new world of top-up fees was...
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Laurie Taylor Column
What are you reading this holiday? We conclude our investigation by making another surprise mobile call to a member of university staff. This week: The Departmental Secretary, Department of Media and...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
American students are back in their classrooms. The academic year starts early in the US. But there are other, deeper, ways in which American universities are ahead of those in Europe. They are, on...
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Leader: Rising revenue is not risk-free
Now that the Higher Education Policy Institute's report on the financial prospects for UK higher education has finally been published, it is easy to see why Hepi did not rush it into print. However...
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Leader: Not too cool for school
Since long before Tony Blair's Ugly Rumours were failing to sweep all before them at Oxford University, students have seen pop stardom as a desirable (if elusive) form of graduate employment. That...
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Enrolling lowly graded hurts all
Magnus Johnson wrote last week about allowing students with low grades into university (Letters, September 1). Nowhere is this more common, nor more problematic, than in nursing. Across the country,...
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Theorems need folk
Brian Davies's admission that mathematicians may in future have to rely on computers to check some theorems makes you wonder how those mathematicians can be sure they have set up their computers...
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Hear the real voices
Ruth Scurr (Opinion, September 1) should acknowledge that the historical novel frequently masquerades as a form of "history by association", implicitly aligning itself to historical fact in a...
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Clearing rocks
The news that clearing is in "chaos" will come as a surprise to the 356,000 students who so far have had their places confirmed through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service ("Ucas glitch...
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Time to get knotted
It is unfortunate that Leonard Susskind's vitriolic and intemperate attack on two critics of string theory ("Hold fire! This epic vessel has only just set sail...", August 25) should have appeared in...
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Ethical scrutiny
Your report of the restrictions on covert social science research ("Ethics guards are 'stifling' creativity", August 25) may fuel an overreaction to the concern for improving ethical scrutiny. I too...
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Blair's poor legacy 1
Vernon Bogdanor surely performs a sleight of hand by conflating the actions of the 1997 Labour Government with the role of Tony Blair ("Labour's great hero who nearly was", September 1). The...
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Blair's poor legacy 2
Vernon Bogdanor's expressions "constitutional reform" and "radical programme of constitutional change" are too polite. Abuse of the UK Constitution is surely a more apt description? We still have the...
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Satisfied customers
In reporting this year's National Student Survey you made great play of the fact that results for a number of larger institutions could not be published as not enough of their students had responded...
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Stronghold of academic rule besieged by federal camps
Academic self-governance is on the wane across the UK, Michael North reports. But Bernard Crick says that fears for democracy at Oxford are unjustified Oxford and Cambridge universities are unique...