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ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILFollow-on FundAward winner: Stephen HutchingsInstitution: University of ManchesterValue: £115,733Comparative approaches to Islam, security and television news:...
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Join us in the big tent
The CDBU is a broad church that aims to represent all who care for higher education, Mary Margaret McCabe writes
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No argument, Vince - just coalition cant and puerile propaganda
Fred Inglis responds to the secretary of state for business' defence of the 'swift and absolute destruction of the idea of a university'
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Loud and clear
Researchers didn't hold back when EPSRC head Paul Golby asked for feedback on the council's workings. Things will improve, he vows
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News in brief
Business schoolsExcluded middle costs us dearBusiness schools are failing to help mid-sized companies as much as they could and thus are holding back the UK's economy and society, a study has...
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Guess who's coming to dinner?
Although our university failed to make the shortlist in any of the categories in this year's ߣߣÊÓƵ Awards, as we go to press we learn that there may be a pleasant surprise in store...
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Truly comprehensive education on cards
The conversion of a higher education corporation into a company and group structure to accommodate overseas campuses and attract private investment does indeed present interesting options for the...
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Stars and martyrs
Mahesan Niranjan ("Star-spangled clangers", Letters, 22 November) criticises the current fashion among vice-chancellors to recruit "big hitters" so as to enhance their university's research...
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Sever the doctoral link
Regarding your coverage of the qualifications relevant for teaching in higher education ("Universal lesson to be learned" and "Proportion of academics with PhDs is 'low'", 1 November).The claim now...
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Data to end quota debate
There is an easy way to answer the objection raised by Toby Young in his debate with Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws at the Oxford Union recently that capping the proportion of privately educated...
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Market has spoken: so?
Can one be certain that someone who uses the phrase "interpersonal communication" knows what the humanities are about? ("Strategy for American humanities: blow them up and start again", Opinion, 8...
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Separate but equal
Further to Stan Lester's letter "Compare like with like" (15 November) regarding "Second degree of separation" (News, 8 November): I would like to affirm that postgraduate training and education...
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Theoretical failure
I fell about laughing on reading the first few paragraphs of Matthew Reisz's superb dissection of an academically loopy interpretation of his father Karel Reisz's work ("A voyage round my father", 22...
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Healthy distance
Sue Norton's caution against first-name use ("Suitable address", Opinion, 1 November) rests on the correct sense that the classroom is not a democracy, that there is (one hopes) a "knowledge gap"...
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My sentiments exactly
Roger Ottewill and Mary Brown suggest that teachers should continue to teach after retirement ("Life coaching", Letters, 22 November).Their responses to my letter ("Qualified expectations", 8...