Pucker up, piglets
Having made a pig of university funding, the government had to dress it up. But who will be seduced by a brazen shade of 'Student Experience' lipstick or the White Paper's other blandishments?...

Having made a pig of university funding, the government had to dress it up. But who will be seduced by a brazen shade of 'Student Experience' lipstick or the White Paper's other blandishments?...
The government's White Paper will undermine higher education in England. It makes frequent mention of the excellence of the system it now threatens and proposes new forms of financing that are more...
As a former vice-chancellor and now the chair of an NHS trust, I have been struck by the similarities between the government's reforms of higher education and health.Both sets of initial policies...
The sorry tale criticised in "A big paper but no grand plan" (Leader, 30 June) is not only the story of higher education in the UK but also of industry. The UK's corporate culture looks at short-term...
After the political mire of New Labour, Simon Szreter's piece offers a welcome escape route for the party ("Universal access", 22 June).Szreter's timely anchoring of his argument on the dismissal of...
The UK Research Integrity Office was established not only to address misconduct but also to promote good research practice ("Fighting for integrity", 30 June). So we are puzzled by Universities UK's...
I can relate to Liz Schafer's struggles over pay ("There's no good reason for this inequality", 30 June). As one of the UK's 10 black female professors and having been a professor for several years,...
David Richards is right to point to the proliferation of teaching fellowships as a blight on junior academics and academia alike ("Teaching fellowships do not benefit anyone", Letters, 30 June):...
David Richards' diatribe in which he makes the magnificently non-evidence-based assertion that university teaching should "always be led by those who are most passionate...about a field" (aka...
Would Richards rather have students taught by people who love their subject but do not want to teach, or by those who are committed to teaching and set high personal and professional standards in...
I shared the dismay of Tony Gatrell (Letters, 16 June) regarding the spelling of "Perfoming Arts" and "Carribean Studies" in the posters brandished by protesting London Metropolitan University...

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The choice between "learning and earning" was always an easy one for Barbara Scholz, whose passion for academia and the pursuit of knowledge was a constant throughout her life.Born in Ohio in 1947,...

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