Unplugged
A university does not need a charter or even walls - open minds are enough, argue groups whose challenges to convention have been invigorated by recent protest movements. Jack Grove reports
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Attributive justice
With the best of intentions and the worst of outcomes, anonymous marking discredits lecturers and serves students badly. George MacDonald Ross believes greater trust will lead to fairness for all
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Inescapable burden of 'guilty knowledge'
I read with interest Peter Geoghegan's tale of the Boston College-Belfast Project tapes. While the case has been covered extensively in serious newspapers and blogs, readers relying on his account...
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Wealth and safety
Keith Vaz is right: the government needs to do everything in its power to reassure international students that we value their presence at our universities - and take their safety when in the UK...
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Pension protection
At its special meeting last Friday, the national executive committee of the University and College Union rejected the government's heads-of-agreement offer on the Teachers' Pension Scheme. The offer...
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Devastating disengagement
The University of Sussex's proposal to close its Centre for Community Engagement seems to conflict with the institution's stated aims to widen access and to engage more with the local community. The...
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Detect and instruct
It would be surprising if many academics believed that there was a "silver bullet" that would eliminate plagiarism through a detection system alone ("Don't count on a 'silver bullet'", 19 January)....
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Compound the error
In response to the shortage of helium for his research, Ray Dolan, a professor at University College London's Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, suggests that in the long run it might be...
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Rich vision, pretty pattern (1 of 2)
The anonymous writer of "Poverty of vision pays well" (Letters, 19 January) underestimates the depth of each vice-chancellor's vision, which today far exceeds a mere preoccupation with league tables....
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Rich vision, pretty pattern (2 of 2)
Four profiles of vice-chancellors' policy advisers ("Who let them in?", 19 January): all young[ish] and female. Hardly a scientific sample, I admit, but the typical UK vice-chancellor: old[er] and...
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Film review: The Descendants
The idyllic island backdrop may pall but the chemistry between George Clooney and his clan ignites the film, says Will Brooker
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TV review: Gypsy Blood: True Stories
Fist-fighting is a way of life for Gypsy communities. It may seem brutal, says Gary Day, but it is at least fair
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David Price, 1954-2012
As well as being a renowned expert on the legal and ethical aspects of organ donation, David Price was a man of wide interests, ranging from tennis to sudoku to hill walking.Born in 1954, Professor...
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Campus round-up
University of HullSlavery isn't historyA project will address one of the contemporary world's most pressing - yet often overlooked - human rights concerns. In 2007, many UK schools marked the 200th...