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  1. The week in higher education

    • Racism is usually blamed on complex factors such as socio-economic background, peer group influence and political propaganda, but one academic study has suggested that rock music also has a case to...

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    #The week in HE

  3. From Where I sit - Threat to national security

    Throughout the history of the US, the nation has drawn strength from its large, established middle class - families who owned homes, saved for retirement and lived in relative security. They could...

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    #Opinion

  4. Odds and Quads

    This "flying machine" is suspended from the ceiling of the Athena Building in Teesside University, where it forms part of a suite of 26 pieces called Dream Migration.

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    #Odds and quads

  5. Appointments

    University of Western OntarioMichael MildeThe newly appointed dean of the University of Western Ontario's Faculty of Arts and Humanities believes that people should not be discouraged from studying...

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    #People

  6. Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude

    Discussion of the merits of paired works used to be a sociable pastime. Has the fashion for chronological museology narrowed our experience, asks Sheila McTighe

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    #Exhibitions
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  7. Third-culture club

    The 'sciart' movement is bridging the gulf between the 'two cultures' that C.P. Snow lamented more than 50 years ago. Matthew Reisz reports from the lab of the imagination, where anything can happen

    #Features

  8. No feedback loop, no way to improve (1 of 3)

    Frank Furedi's typically provocative piece on student satisfaction surveys' malign influence on academic standards misses the point ("Satisfaction and its discontents", 8 March).If the purpose of...

    #Letters

  9. No feedback loop, no way to improve (2 of 3)

    Many of my most satisfying experiences have also been the most challenging: I bet the same is true for Frank Furedi. So why does he argue that a focus on the student experience "inexorably" leads to...

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  10. No feedback loop, no way to improve (3 of 3)

    Feedback from students is an essential element of any pedagogic process: without it, education is reduced to indoctrination. Standardised evaluation forms and formal box-ticking exercises such as the...

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  11. Tourist attractions

    The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is rightly concerned about the effect a cut in international student numbers will have on the UK economy ("Britain needs foreign talent flow -...

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  12. Slave labour

    Sir Tim Wilson's Review of Business-University Collaboration raises the prospect of a generation of students suffering the exploitation of unpaid internships under the guise that they need more work...

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  13. Offensive characterisation

    The characterisation by Ruth Deech of the Office for Fair Access' collaborative work with universities, which encourages them to maximise their range of qualified applicants (and therefore entrants...

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  14. Gender agenda

    In "De Montfort ga ga as Queen selects it for Jubilee party" (8 March), it was reported that the Duke of Edinburgh was keen to visit a robotics club designed to interest local secondary school...

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  15. Reach for the stoicism

    While it is good to see Sir Douglas Bader get an honourable mention ("Holding on to hope", 8 March), you are wrong to state: "In 1931, for example, Sir Douglas...could describe a ghastly crash with...

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