Fraud sentence
Christopher Bigsby is wrong ("Copycat criminality", Opinions, 30 August): plagiarism is not theft. Theft only occurs when someone takes property without permission, intending to deprive the owner...
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You're making this up
I have noticed another odd thing about the University of Poppleton ("Rare cite", Letters, 30 August): it is never listed in the Index of universities at the back of THE - not even when it is...
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Harold Shukman, 1931-2012
A leading authority on Russian history, politics and culture has died.Harold Shukman was born in London on 23 March 1931 and had a fragmented early education until national service offered him the...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
University of BathTime out for good measureThe Rugby Football Union and Premiership Rugby have recruited a team of three academics to evaluate a new method of examining injured players for concussion...
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Market 'has not changed university hierarchy', says report
Introducing tuition fees of up to £9,000 will not change the hierarchy of British universities because applicants generally pick an institution based on its prestige and history, a new study suggests.
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Smells like techno spirit for new intake
They have never used an airline ticket, or had cause to consult a set of bound encyclopaedias, and regard point-and-shoot cameras as "soooooo last millennium".
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London Met takes legal action over visa licence
London Metropolitan University is to take legal action to challenge the revocation of its licence to admit international students, saying it has a duty to the higher education sector to challenge the...
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City University wrongly connected with London Met crisis
A translation error by Chinese news agencies has dragged another higher education institution into the London Metropolitan University visa controversy.
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Grading Clout?
By Alexandra Tilsley, for Inside Higher Ed
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UEL opens doors to London Met students
The University of East London has set up a hotline for London Metropolitan University students, in a bid to attract those facing deportation in the wake of the visa scandal.
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UK sector will take hit from London Met visa scandal, senior figures warn
The decision to strip London Metropolitan University of its licence to recruit overseas students has implications “for the whole UK sector”, according to the vice-president of Universities UK.
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Animals Erased: Discourse, Ecology and Reconnection with the Natural World
Christopher Belshaw prefers the style to the substance of this 'alternative' approach to wildlife
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Care to Dare: Unleashing Astonishing Potential Through Secure Base Leadership
Leadership is a contested paradigm, and that is about the only thing upon which leadership scholars and practitioners usually agree. Many learned and experienced people have sought, over decades if...
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Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformations
To begin with, an irritation: historians long ago lost the battle to have footnotes where they should be, at the foot of each page, but there can be no excuse for a serious publisher to stick them at...