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The week in higher education
He may be hell-bent on destroying their “Marxist” education departments, but universities are still dutifully helping education secretary Michael Gove with his A-level reform plans. After the Russell...
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Where do you think you’re going, eminent Cambridge scientist from overseas?
Cambridge lab staff had to keep weekly record of whereabouts, master complains. John Elmes writes
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Annus horribilis
Not many vice-chancellors own up to their universities being “too aggressive” on job cuts, or lament the “tragedy” of closing languages courses when their institution is doing just that.But given the...
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Leader - Local pathways through disputed territory
When it comes to resolving student grievances in the high fees era, it is best if universities can nip them in the bud
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Wealthy foundations: UK’s engineering heavyweights
The University of Sheffield has nudged the University of Cambridge into third place in a list of the UK institutions earning the most research income from engineering, Higher Education Statistics...
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Gross domestic pinprick for the UK’s academy
Public funding for UK higher education as a proportion of national income, after coalition reforms, is now greater than just four other European nations, a report claims.The study by the European...
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Lecturers don’t rate Rate Your Lecturer site
Founder digs in as academics expound on offering’s weaknesses. Chris Parr writes
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Students as consumers? We just don’t buy it!
A “statement of principles” challenging the ideals of “consumer sovereignty” and financial “realism” that underpin current government policy on higher education has been issued after an event...
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Executive downsizing for UCU
Union votes to trim committee but not on scale called for by general secretary. Jack Grove writes
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Spokes in the wheels of bespoke plagiarism
University hears bespoke course assessments can deter ‘contract’ cheats. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Laurie Taylor
We aim to please“I merely ushered him outside. The suggestion that I ejected him is a gross slander.”This was how Professor Lapping, of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, sought to justify...
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Campus round-up - 13 June 2013
Display hoardA student dressed from head to toe in medical equipment is one of the highlights of the University of Brighton’s Graduate Show. Karol Michalec’s artwork (top, left) – which he says...
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THE Scholarly Web - 13 June 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Appointments - 13 June 2013
Queen’s University, CanadaSusan MummThe new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario said she was “excited by the prospect of working at one of Canada’s...