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Arts and humanities get own research council Today, arts and humanities scholars get their own long-awaited research council, a sign of the growing economic respect the government has for the...
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Laurie Taylor Column
Are you at a real university? The news that six higher education colleges are to achieve "full university status" has increased demands for a reliable student guide to what counts as a full...
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Leader: Keep science in its safe haven
Chancellor Gordon Brown has been the most important person in British science since 1997. Some of his decisions have been controversial. But his willingness to put significant sums into research has...
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Leader: Arts body to enrich UK
The creation of a research council for the arts and humanities this week marked a new era for an area of research that has long been overlooked by the Government. The Arts and Humanities Research...
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Unjust deserts of pay reward 1
It is hardly surprising that employers, in the guise of Universities UK and the Universities and Colleges Employers Association, are trying to dampen expectations of a decent pay settlement this year...
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Unjust deserts of pay reward 2
Congratulations to Leeds University for implementing a pay band for professors and senior managers. But, contrary to your report ("Senior staff put on Leeds pay spine", March 25), it is not the first...
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Unaccounted
On March 18, an 800-page edition of the Cambridge University Reporter thudded onto desks.It was racily titled "Accounts of the Colleges and Approved Foundations in the University of Cambridge", and a...
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Take note 1
Frank Furedi does his old undergraduate instructor a disservice when he complains about having received a six-page handout on Plato's Republic . ("I refuse to hand it to students on a plate", March...
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Take note 2
Frank Furedi makes for provocative reading, but what he interprets as a student looking for an "easy ride" may be a student with dyslexia exercising a "reasonable adjustment" in terms of the...
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Take note 3
In The Public Intellectual , Frank Furedi argues that the public intellectual is an endangered species. Yet in his contributions to The Times Higher - for example, that on students being provided...
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Green gripes 1
So "the very foundations of our democracy" are threatened by environmentalists (Soapbox, March 18)? A frightening claim, particularly when it is made with the democratic authority of an unelected...
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Green gripes 2
Many thanks to Lord Taverne for his masterly exposition of the perils of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism begins by constructing a clear demarcation between its right-thinking self and "the Other", to...
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We're OK in the UK
Paul Ormerod repeats the common fallacy that the performance of US universities has "dramatically pulled away" from "Oxbridge, London School of Economics and the like" (Opinion, March 25). The latest...
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Ethics of autonomy
If what the Council for Industry and Higher Education is proposing is an all-embracing ethics-driven code of conduct for universities, well and good ("'Ethical' degrees get cool response" March 25)....
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Help yourself
Alison Wolf asks: "Now, could someone address the shortage of science and modern language students?" (Opinion, March 18). Yes - you, the universities, could. Help make the GCSE and A-level courses...