Leader: More than just a robe and cap
A chancellor may seem archaic, but the role can be updated and reinterpreted to perform a truly valuable service for universities
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Research intelligence - Fanfare for the common front
Transparency and support for all UK science are the aims of the STFC's new chief. Paul Jump reports
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Occupations are read the Riot Act by havens of free thought
Call for 'safe protest zones' as demonstrators face violence on US campuses. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
• An attempt to reignite the "Climategate" row with the leak of a second batch of emails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia fell flat. Whereas the release of the...
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From where I sit - State the case for the public good
It has grown fashionable recently to pronounce that the distinction between public and private colleges and universities is now anachronistic.In ߣߣÊÓƵ, as well as in the UK, we understand all too...
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Appointments
London School of EconomicsPaul De GrauweAn economist and former member of the Belgian Parliament has been named the first holder of the John Paulson chair in European political economy at the London...
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LSE's 'mistakes were legion' in Libyan dealings, Woolf finds
‘Damning’ report criticises governance, but Saif Gaddafi likely to keep PhD. David Matthews writes
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Thou shalt not sit on fences
Academia must follow the Church’s lead in debating ethics, says Malcolm Gillies
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Face value
University chancellors are a mixed bag of rock stars and actors, politicians and entrepreneurs, but are they mere glad-handing figureheads or can they make a genuine difference to the institution...
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Canary in the coal mine
Why has the idea of publicly funded higher education crumbled so quickly in England? James Vernon explores the origins of an academic culture that has internalised market rationalities and traces the...
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'Consumer' right? No, it's the wrong analogy
After two decades of exposure to the managerial mantra "the student is a consumer", I was intrigued to see the ߣߣÊÓƵ headline "A bad deal for 'consumers'" (17 November), particularly...
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Consensual impact
In "Dutch lessons for an impact agenda that satisfies all parties" (17 November), Paul Benneworth contrasts the Netherlands' approach to impact with the UK's. The title attracted my attention, not...
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False move
University College London plans to move "postgraduate teaching and research and accommodation for students and staff...to a new campus next to the Olympic Park...[This] could be used to house...
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Fact-check failure
Anyone applying for accreditation, a job or even club membership might be expected to have some knowledge of the organisation they want to join.In the case of "for-profit" providers, we might take...
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Open up
The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield is holding a series of three inaugural lectures. But unlike the other faculties in the institution, and all the other universities I know...