Printing pressed
Dissemination of the written word is changing as e-books proliferate. But how will it affect academics and the publishing industry? Andrew Franklin reads between the lines
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Do the maths: Cetls' contributions add up (1 of 3)
We wish to take issue with Paul Ramsden's argument concerning the Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning ("A poor policy poorly managed leaves little to show for £315 million", 15 March). We...
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Do the maths: Cetls' contributions add up (2 of 3)
While a full account of the legacy of the Cetls is not possible in a brief letter, one important example is the large number of higher education staff who, through engagement with the centres, have...
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Do the maths: Cetls' contributions add up (3 of 3)
While the £315 million funding for the Cetl project was the largest of any recent initiative that failed to improve university teaching standards, it is by no means unique.Greybeards and silver...
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Results of corruption
Your report on a global study of academic salaries ("You won't get rich (but you might get a free turkey)", 22 March) notes that academic moonlighting is rife in low-paid countries. The reality is...
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Tolerate this, what's next?
Ruth Deech has done a great service by highlighting the failures of some universities to respect the laws that protect students on campus from intimidation, harassment and defamation ("Hate has no...
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Evolutionary battleground (1 of 2)
Steve Fuller objects to being called an anti-evolutionist and then goes on to name Pierre Teilhard de Chardin as one of the heroes of his book, Humanity 2.0 ("The Darwin delusion", Letters, 8 March)....
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Evolutionary battleground (2 of 2)
Steven Rose claims that Mark Pagel's Wired for Culture is full of contradictions and misunderstandings, but this is actually more characteristic of Rose's review than Pagel's book (" 'Brain candy' is...
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Flagged up
Regarding "Journalistic prejudice" (22 March). The article, about ߣߣÊÓƵn media issues, is written by a Melbourne-based author...but the flag above it is New Zealand's. Granted, they are similar,...
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Amber Miro, 1965-2012
An expert in the benefits new technology can bring to students, Amber Miro was regarded by colleagues and friends as "unfailingly positive".Ms Miro joined the London School of Economics as an IT...
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Campus round-up
Goldsmiths/Edinburgh/HertfordshireProphet margin vanishesAn experiment that supposedly proved the existence of psychic powers has been challenged by a group of British psychologists. Academics at...
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29 March 2012
Crash course - If failure is not an option, students will never succeed
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University participation rate stalls
The growth in the proportion of young people participating in higher education has stalled after years of steady increases, according to new figures.
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Campus Review: Hecs black hole reaches A$500m
By Susan Woodward, for Campus Review