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Laurie Taylor Column
Which academic club? This column regularly receives correspondence from readers who are anxious to join an academic club but feel bewildered by the number of choices. We are, therefore, pleased to...
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Leader: Time for Tories to embrace reality
Higher education was one of the first areas on which David Cameron left his mark when he became Conservative leader. His party's opposition to tuition fees - lauded as a populist masterstroke at the...
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Leader: Look for equal partners
The Council for Industry and Higher Education's proposals for international partnerships between universities, which will be debated this week and next in London and Manchester, have conjured up some...
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Inflating an age-old debate 1
Inflating grades is not new in universities ("This racket demands you surrender your integrity", Opinion, April 28). As an undergraduate at a civic university in the 1960s, I took philosophy as a...
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Inflating an age-old debate 2
As Tim Birkhead points out (Working Knowledge, April 28), grade inflation makes it difficult to distinguish, prior to interview, between the truly outstanding and the competent but mediocre. The...
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Inflating an age-old debate 3
In the latest issue of The Times Higher , there are four articles bemoaning the lowering of standards in UK higher education and the external pressures making it difficult for us to produce graduates...
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Inflating an age-old debate 4
It is pretty rich for Kenneth Minogue to argue that universities surrender their integrity by dependence on the state when he acknowledges that when they were subsidised by the University Grants...
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Marked concern 1
Assuming the fraction of pay Warwick University plans to withhold from staff for participation in the assessment boycott is accurate ("Dispute Dispatches", April 21), then staff there spend an...
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Marked concern 2
The National Union of Students is refusing to end its full support for the Association of University Teachers' assessment boycott and is also refusing to carry out any research into student opinion....
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Marked concern 3
It is no wonder that universities and further education colleges are finding it hard to recruit well-qualified, experienced and motivated staff. As a senior teacher with 30 years' experience, I...
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Not waving
I was disappointed to read the letter from a group of academics from Keele University questioning a series of decisions taken by the university senate (April 28). The decisions were made after...
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Money troubles
So "giving students from poor families significant sums of money at the beginning of the academic year could be 'asking for trouble'" (News, April 7)? What patronising arrogance. These students might...