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  1. The week in higher education

    • David Willetts, the universities minister, is reputed to have two brains - but will his higher education reforms result in fewer graduates having two kidneys? An academic has suggested that it is...

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    #The week in HE

  2. From where I sit - Say sayonara to globalisation

    I have just received the feedback on my first (unsuccessful) funding application to the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the main Japanese research funding body. My sorry experience...

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    #Opinion

  3. Appointments

    University of SydneyRosina McAlpine-MladenovicAfter more than 20 years in the job, Rosina McAlpine-Mladenovic is still proud to proclaim that she loves teaching. The associate professor of accounting...

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    #People

  4. Too much information

    Cutting-edge researchers aren’t necessarily the best teachers, argues Alan Ryan

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    #Opinion

  5. Should we laugh at student howlers?

    Is the ߣߣÊÓƵ ‘exam howlers’ competition a bit of harmless fun, or unfair and offensive? Katie Alcock believes the joke is on teachers as well as their students and no one is any the...

    #Alice Bell
    #Columnists
    #Opinion

  6. When I grow up, I want to be spoon-fed

    Instead of sermonising about the need for more contact hours, ministers should stop infantilising students and listen to what they actually want, argues Paul Ramsden

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  7. Neither here nor there

    An outsider's perspective can spark innovation, but many refugee academics struggle to rekindle careers. Matthew Reisz shares the setbacks and successes of scholars set on rejoining their peers

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  8. We can show that teacher training works

    I found the article by Craig Mahoney, chief executive of the Higher Education Academy, about the value of training for university teachers quite extraordinary ("Knowledge is not enough...", 14 July)....

    #Letters

  9. True cost of visa changes

    Terry Butland's warning about the damage being done to overseas recruitment by new visa rules comes as no surprise to anyone operating within the international education sector ("Middlesex braces for...

    #Letters

  10. Angels with dirty hands

    Thank you for publishing Roger Watson's article on why we need nurses to be educated to degree level in the UK ("We need the IV leaguers", 28 July).As Watson makes clear, there is absolutely no...

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  11. Willetts, you were warned

    The University and College Union and student leaders have warned from the outset that tripling tuition fees would deter people, especially those from poorer backgrounds, from applying to university...

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  12. The spite stuff

    Richard J. Evans is right that reviewers have an obligation to be honest ("Critical path: how did a book reviewer and an author end up in court?", 4 August).As a reviews editor for Archives, the...

    #Letters

  13. Zero intolerance

    Could we please remind ourselves to correct at every opportunity the developing habit of referring to the 20th century as the 1900s?Of course, the same problem affects other centuries. This evening...

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  14. God in the pension plan

    Where is this surge of "post-secularist" commentary coming from ("Spirit levels", 28 July)? It is unlikely to be the British populace, so many of whom consider gods redundant and identify themselves...

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  15. Insidious inflation

    Can someone tell me when British universities began the practice of shaving off 50 per cent of grades (usually, 75 per cent of second-year and 25 per cent of third-year grades) for final assessments?...

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