Creative vs accounting
Allowing universities to be run by bean counters and bureaucrats is detrimental to academics' ingenuity and productivity, argues Amanda Goodall
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Dismantle the tower of 'edu-babble'
I am not at all surprised by the poor notices for the Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, which to me highlight the fact that the Higher Education Academy is probably unfit for purpose...
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Core expression
On 23 January, a meeting of the Atheism, Secularism and Humanism Society at Queen Mary, University of London called to discuss "Sharia law and human rights" was disrupted before the invited speaker,...
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Prejudicial enquiries
You say that the Academic Reputation Survey is based on the "considered, expert judgement of senior, published academics" ("Informed opinion at the heart of the matter", ߣߣÊÓƵ World...
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No mandate for change
In The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy (1991), Albert O. Hirschman warns that a typical trope from the camp of reaction is that an action will produce, via a trail of unintended...
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Analysis of poverty is poor (1 of 2)
Your lead book review does no favours to those wary of the forthcoming research excellence framework ("A wealth of detail on a conundrum", 15 March). Howard Davies knows a bit about failure from his...
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Analysis of poverty is poor (2 of 2)
Howard Davies' astute comments on the REF's corrosive effects on the quality of academic writing remind me of Flannery O'Connor's observation: "Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities...
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Elite mission front
Regarding "Russell Group 'a more natural fit' " (15 March). There is surely only one word for the universities that have left the 1994 Group: splitters.Keith Flett, London
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John House, 1945-2012
John House was a passionate scholar, curator and art historian known for his boyish enthusiasm. His expertise in and keenness for 19th-century French painting were matched only by his enthusiasm as a...
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Campus round-up
Manchester/Manchester School of ArchitectureLost undergroundExcavations for a long-forgotten underground railway in Manchester have been rediscovered. Martin Dodge, senior lecturer in human geography...
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22 March 2012
Measuring up - Judging scholarship as the US enters a post-tenure age
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National Scholarship Programme is little more than a sideshow
Financial aid for individuals during their studies is crucial, argues Liam Burns, but the incoherent NSP will do more harm than good
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Painful reflection
Media self-hatred is fuelling the attacks on media studies, says Sally Feldman
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Budget package holds £100m for research
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced investment worth £100 million for universities in a bid to boost private-sector investment in research.