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The week in books
Children of the Revolution: The French 1799-1914 by Robert Gildea, professor of modern history, University of Oxford. Allen Lane, £25.00, ISBN 9780713997606"Gildea is an accomplished interpreter of...
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Pay varies but Europe lags £18K below American mean
Global survey shows up wide variations in career and salary opportunities. John Gill reports
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US losing edge in innovation league
Competitiveness index reveals 'new world order' as Europe and Asia gain. Hannah Fearn reports
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Overseas briefing
JapanDrive to double overseas numbersThe number of overseas students at universities in Japan will more than double if targets the Government has set for the sector are achieved. At present there are...
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Greetings and salutations...
Mrs DilworthPersonal Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor and PresidentUniversity of PoppletonPoppleton RoadPoppleton PP11 WW34Dear Mrs DilworthGreetings and salutations from the 75th International...
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A real piece of the action
Alan Ryan wishes Oxford's big donors would share their financial expertise
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Guest leader: Stop R&D talent going to waste
The creation of an Innovation Index is a long-overdue opportunity to right funding wrongs, argues Les Ebdon
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Bill Clarke, 1943-2008
Bill Clarke, provost of the Jordanstown and Belfast campuses of the University of Ulster for the past six years, died suddenly while officiating at a Police Service of Northern Ireland graduation...
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Oxford warned over sprinkler dangers for book depository
FoI Act flushes out new plans that could risk water damage, reports Melanie Newman
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Marked problem of rewarding status quo 1
Hurrah for Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's assault on marking schemes (Columnist, 24 July). I spent two years as an A-level Edexcel assistant physics examiner. The first, with the various "standardisation...
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Marked problem of rewarding status quo 2
Both Steven Barnett (Opinion, 24 July) and Robin Wilson ("Wondrous games of logic", 24 July) speak for many of the research assessment exercise (RAE)-disenfranchised in referring to how we need some...
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Marked problem of rewarding status quo 3
I have to endorse everything Felipe Fernandez-Armesto says. On the PGCE course I completed this year, tutors were obliged to mark according to inflexible criteria and not to exercise their own...
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Marked problem of rewarding status quo 4
I agree with many of the points made by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, especially in relation to the "accountancy" aspects of marking schemes. I would extend his sentiment by citing the Oscar Wilde quote...
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Fostering free debate
Our evidence has consistently shown that there is serious, but not widespread, extremist activity in higher education establishments. Most people in Muslim communities reject terrorism and say there...