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The week in higher education - 14 November 2013
Unions have called another nationwide strike for 3 December as part of a pay battle with higher education employers. As on 31 October, the University and College Union, Unite and Unison are all set...
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Universities must not repeat music’s costly online errors
Feargal Sharkey tells GuildHE conference of hits, myths and the cost of ‘free’ in the Mooc era
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Assets, liabilities and old age tensions
In “Pay it forward” (Letters, 7 November), Dennis Leech attacks my analysis of the financial health of the Universities Superannuation Scheme, the UK’s largest pension scheme.The basis of his attack...
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Michael Ignatieff wins votes for honesty
Losing on the political stage has prompted public intellectual to change how he teaches
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Apprenticeships aimed at private students only
Some firms want only the ‘people their sons and daughters go to school with’
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The Endtimes of Human Rights, by Stephen Hopgood
Conor Gearty on an impassioned attack on ‘imperialism disguised as moralism’
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Q&A with Hanif Kureishi
We speak to the award-winning author and playwright, and professor at Kingston University. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Tom Palaima on the power of mentors
A mentor provides far more than inspiration and sage advice, says Tom Palaima, who fears for the future of such guiding relationships in the era of Moocs
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Invisible Nature: Healing the Destructive Divide between People and the Environment, by Kenneth Worthy
Laurence Coupe on a grand indictment of the ‘Western epistemological error’
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Was 1994 Group’s demise triggered by relaunch delays?
Scrapped mission group was close to high-profile rebrand
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Beyond sushi: the attractions of lecturing in Japan
Susan K Burton looks back at her time teaching at Japanese universities and wonders why more Westerners don’t head east
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The PGCE is a teaching turn-off
If universities want to keep teacher training, their courses must be more relevant to the real school world, argues Susan Bassnett
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Vince Cable slams ‘qualification inflation’ in ‘standard’ professions
Vince Cable has criticised the “qualification inflation” that means entrants to “very standard” professions such as nursing require a degree.
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Open University to end PGCE
The Open University is to withdraw its postgraduate teacher training programme after its January and March 2014 intakes.