Laurie Taylor – 19 November 2015
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Why I had to quit the research excellence framework panel
With no time for proper peer review and with grade inflation inevitable, one academic felt compelled to resign
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V-cs have brought the teaching excellence framework on themselves
It is wrong for universities to ignore learning, says Anthony Seldon
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‘Ideas are ghostly things, and scholarly writing is a kind of magic’
As a manuscript haunts her, Shahidha Bari muses on Apple and the Bard
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Teaching still far from parity
Richard Black is right to highlight the need for debate around the Green Paper (“Higher education Green Paper: have universities really neglected teaching?”, 9 November), but I am not sure that he is...
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Online isolation
You report that researchers from Walden University and the University of Phoenix find that “persons with disabilities experience marginalisation in education on a regular basis” (“Students with...
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Adaptive thinking
Dame Julia King’s illustration of restructuring student learning around “universal challenges” such as climate change (“Climate change will take all our expertise”, Opinion, 29 October) reveals both...
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Log on, Africa
Re your feature on private higher education in Africa (“A ‘teaching shop’ on every corner”, 22 October). As a veteran educationalist in Africa, I fully agree with the statement by Adebayo Olukoshi...
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Sensing bias
We hear that David Cameron has asked Ucas to make university applications “name-blind” to avoid bias against black students (“On improving diversity, the sector has a clear choice: lead or be led”,...
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Comradely chic
Lara Cook, in her laudatory review of Sheila Fitzpatrick’s On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics (Books, 29 October), states that Stalin’s team “even into the 1930s,...
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Keeping calm and lobbying on
With less panic than it showed prior to 2010’s flat-cash result, science hopes for another round of it-could-have-been-worse