Laurie Taylor – 26 November 2015
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!

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The media’s sneering attacks on the Labour leader’s limited tertiary study fail to recognise that academic qualifications are not political science, says Martin McQuillan
When the government introduced new policies for higher education fees, it ignored warnings that repayment rates would be much lower than it had claimed. Now that it has acknowledged those lower...
Your anonymous correspondent’s account of reviewing for the research excellence framework substantially reflects my own experience as a panellist in 2008 who was offered the chance to be renominated...
There are plenty of things that drive me nuts about the higher education sphere and its planetary system, but one of the worst offenders is the contention by “employers” that students lack “skills”...
While Richard Black may be correct that good research and good teaching can go together, they often do not (“Have universities really neglected teaching?”, Opinion, 19 November). Few lecturers can...
Writing with the authority of a former head of Ofsted, Sir David Bell, now vice-chancellor of the University of Reading, writes: “There is an opportunity to create a proportionate, sensible system...
The recent article “Has the multi-campus university had its day?” is a fashion statement (19 November). The use of terms such as “criminal”, “short-sighted” and “disgrace” by critics of London...

Why are we treated shabbily when we do so much for our universities? ask two members of this overlooked group