Fear over access to Arab campus
As Israel prepares to disengage from Gaza, lecturers at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem - the only Arab university in the city - fear increased restrictions. Al-Quds has buildings in the old city and...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"The QAA is seeking senior assessors to scrutinise applications from institutions wishing to become universities. 'Knowledge or experience is not essential.'" - The Times Higher , August 5 So, may we...
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Alan Ryan
There is nothing like two Dames and a Knight to cut bureaucracy and help universities to run a bit more efficiently When he was president of Princeton University, Bill Bowen had a simple recipe for...
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Leader: Useful tonics and bitter pills
There is little to fault in the diagnosis, but the proposed remedies may not all benefit the patient. Asked by the Government to recommend ways of increasing the recruitment of academics and...
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Leader: Contented postgrads
There was a time not too long ago when introductory PhD training could amount to giving a new research student a pile of academic papers and an empty office and telling them to come back in three...
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Don't let terror stifle expression 1
An important function of universities is to "sustain a culture that demands disciplined thinking, encourages curiosity, challenges existing ideas and generates new ones", according to the Dearing...
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Don't let terror stifle expression 2
We cannot hope to combat terrorism without understanding its underlying nature, and Bill Durodie ("Terror in the first person", Review, August 5) is quite wrong to claim that we have now entered an...
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Truth is our mission
Bob Brecher asks where academics' loyalties lie (Working Knowledge, August 5). Their key loyalty should be to their side of the contract they have with society, which entitles them to the trust,...
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RAE sidelines youth
Dave Toke's claim ("RAE rules may lead to cull of older staff", August 5) that the 2008 research assessment exercise threatens older researchers rests on two assumptions. First, that he is no better...
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Don't bet on it
Veronica King of the National Union of Students stated in the report about online poker that it's easy to see how students may be tempted to play because student debt is so high ("St Hilda's is flush...
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Quality throughout
Your article about the recruitment of assessors for degree-awarding powers and university title (DAP/UT) applications suggests that they do not need to be trained Quality Assurance Agency reviewers...
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Keep science honest 1
Tim Birkhead says there should be courses on "doing science" that address scientific dishonesty (Working Knowledge, July 22). At St Andrews University, we already have one: a second-year...
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Keep science honest 2
Perhaps the potential risk posed to hospital patients by an online essay service targeted at nursing students ("Online essay site 'may put patients at risk'", August 5) could easily be minimised by...
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Cathedral confusion
Tut tut, John Beckett, for citing (Letters, August 5 ) Southwell as a town with a cathedral (it does not have one - it has a minster) and Nottingham as a city without a cathedral (it has one - the...
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Eleven years - that's one long tutorial ...
There is lifelong learning and then there is Johnny Lechner. Stephen Phillips meets Wisconsin's eternal student This is the year," exclaims University of Wisconsin student Johnny Lechner. Then again...