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The sector must not let claims that application rates vindicate fees policy go unchallenged, says Liam Burns
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Dose of realism over EU exit strategy
I cannot share the optimism of Alison Wolf and Nigel Healey over the prospects for UK higher education should the country leave the European Union (“Quitting Europe would be big, but not a crisis on...
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Make time to look within
It was nice to see my former research centre referred to in your editorial on the need for more higher education research (“Look sharp, the ground is shifting”, Leader, 31 January). “Gone but not...
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Bad mouths strike again
Please, please, please: no more articles or opinion pieces on how the UK’s immigration policies are harming international student recruitment (“Stubbornly indifferent”, Opinion, 31 January). The...
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Blaming the victims
As an equality and diversity consultant of many years’ standing and chair of UK Investor in Equality and Diversity, I read your article on Leeds Metropolitan University academic Jacqueline Stevenson’...
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Not for profit
Given that he is so keen on the evidence, Peter Crisp might do worse than look carefully at the reports into for-profit higher education produced by Harvard University academics and Tom Harkin, US...
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Right words at right time
Tony Harker complains that the two central words in “sit the fuck down” are redundant and offensive (Letters, 31 January). I find them indispensable when responding to the unpardonable idiocy of...
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Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind
Jeremy MacClancy on the British Museum’s new exhibition linking Ice Age artistry to the Modernists
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Bridges across an Impossible Divide by Marc Gopin
John Brewer reviews a book that focuses on the spiritual motivations of peacemakers in the Middle East
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Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography by Jeremy Gray
Madeline Muntersbjorn reviews a guide to the oeuvres of a mathematical genius
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Unfree Masters: Recording Artists and the Politics of Work by Matt Stahl
Hillegonda Rietveld reviews a study of recording artists as cultural workers
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Amelia Fletcher takes UEA chair
Indie musician and the OFT’s former chief economist, takes chair at ‘creative’ UEA
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Naked lecturer looks for nude truth
Daniel Ploeger’s performance provokes minds through ‘body beautiful’
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Nicholas Ambraseys, 1929-2012
A world-renowned seismologist with particular expertise in the historical study of earthquakes has died.Nicholas Ambraseys was born in Athens on 19 January 1929 and studied at the National Technical...
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Campus Round-Up
Source: Nature Picture LibraryDon’t eat that, you don’t know what’s in itAfrican vultures tend to avoid national parks and prefer to scavenge on private farmland, a study of the birds’ feeding habits...