Postgrads crave more stimulation
Survey reveals very positive experience despite complaints about poor 'intellectual climate'. John Gill reports. Postgraduate research students have given a ringing endorsement to their experience,...
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Lecturers with PhDs 'overqualified' for job
New entrants' research expertise could be redundant as they are pushed into teaching-only posts. John Gill reports. The PhD - seen as a foundation for an academic career - is becoming redundant for...
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GuildHE: we can out-teach Oxbridge
Look out Oxbridge: the colleges of higher education and small specialist institutions in the GuildHE group can offer better teaching than Oxford and Cambridge universities, the group's new chair...
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'London has all the lessons from Sydney and how not to do it from
The author of a new book on the Olympics and tourism says London has much to gain from hosting the Games. The Sydney Olympics in 2000 were a hit, the Athens games in 2004 a botched job and Beijing...
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Lofty ambition in Asia's mountain frontiers
With the Aga Khan's aid, the highlands of Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic will soon boast an ambitious three-campus university. David Shariamadari reports. Building a new university...
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Help everyone get the skills to compete
Universities must focus more on adults, employers and market needs, Mike Campbell argues. Our prosperity depends on how many people are in work and how productive they are. In fact, productivity...
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The season to be merry
From: The Deputy Head of Christmas arrangements Subject: Christmas arrangements 1. It appears that some members of staff are still using such phrases as "Christmas holidays" and "Christmas break" to...
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'Too often, universities are giving in to the demands ..
'Too often, universities are giving in to the demands of religious lobbies, at the expense of precious principles'. The naming of furry animals, as T.S. Eliot reminds us in Old Possum's Book of...
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Leader: Teaching is not a lesser mission than research
The Government wants every secondary-school maths lesson to be taught by a teacher with a degree in maths. On the same principle, can a degree course be taught by teachers who have not practised the...
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Going round in circles
The "questions over whether the system should have a reliance on internal rotations" ("Sector fails to assist its former pro v-cs", December 7) should be asked about academic management roles...
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Accidents will happen
Who has not been on the brink of staining students' work with cups of coffee ("Coffee rings are not best marks", December 7)? It is surprising it doesn't happen more often, given the need to stay...
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Exercises in creativity and clarity 2
I have many examples of the same publication being cited in four different ways (Letters, December 7). For instance, my first book, Adolescent Gambling , published in 1995, has more than 150...
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Doing the sums 1
Michael Bourn (Letters, December 7) suggests that the annual average earnings figure for "all professionals" from the Government's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings is not relevant in making...
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Doing the sums 2
The interests of business, centring as they do on maximising shareholders' profits, have nothing in common with those embodied by Western universities in their role of creating and fostering a nation...
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Exercises in creativity and clarity 1
Good for Andrew Sparkes ("'Bollocks': RAE paper assesses the RAE", December 7). The more challenges to the research assessment exercise the better. But Sparkes isn't alone. Last May, we published our...