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  1. There's comfort in hanging on to your head

    As Oxford elects a new chancellor this weekend, Claire Sanders looks at a job that has cost some their lives but is now extreme only in its vagueness. In the 16th century, five of Cambridge...

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  2. Syllabus driver on the virtual highway

    Don't just copy the classroom with e-learning, use it creatively to shake up the curriculum and the students, says e-guru Roger Schanck. Stephen Phillips reports. For an e-learning evangelist, Roger...

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  3. Managerial madness 3

    Steven Schwartz believes elections are outdated because people vote only for those who will give them what they want. So that's the problem with democracy. He also maintains managers must be selected...

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  4. Lessons in irony

    Lord McCarthy tells only part of Ruskin College's story of crisis ("Ruskin left in lurch", THES , March 7). The governing executive, dominated by external trade unionists, has voted for a business...

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  5. Ban the bullies

    Edinburgh University PhD student Brian Dempsey has no empathy for academics who encounter unacceptable student conduct (Letters, THES , March 7). This reminds me of the 1970s, when men who sexually...

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  6. Ig Nobel quest?

    Glynis Breakwell ("Bath gets nod for double vision", THES , March 7) must be angling for an Ig Nobel ("Lab laughs", THES , March 7) with Bath's £200 million Swindon move. Courses offered at Swindon's...

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  7. Some home truths 1

    In suggesting that differences in attainment in schools and colleges are behind social class divisions in higher education participation, the government mistakes correlation between two measures of...

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  8. Some home truths 2

    I attended a state school and was encouraged to perform as well as possible in public examinations. Now that "universities recruiting students with less than three Cs at A level will get a premium...

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  9. Poverty trapped

    No doubt the farmers interviewed by Matt Lobley and Matt Reed ("Please don't come around, we're having a bloody nightmare", THES , March 7) share the countryman's pride of hiding poverty behind hard...

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  10. Unfair comment

    Rick Rylance and Judy Simons (Letters, THES , February 21, 28) wrongly suggest that I paid belated attention to the English benchmarking exercise. At Sussex, we discussed the draft document, I wrote...

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  11. Special delivery 1

    So Sir Clement Freud used the Royal Mail to deliver himself for his installation as student-elected rector of St Andrews (News, THES , February 28). But what institution did he arrive at, when, and...

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  12. Special delivery 2

    Staffordshire University may believe its course for PhD supervisors is "trailblazing" but Edge Hill has, since 1999, offered a postgraduate certificate in research degree supervision validated by...

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  13. Managerial madness 1

    Why does Steven Schwartz think that people who are appointed to positions such as dean or head of department have more "dignity and authority" than if they had been elected (Soapbox, THES , March 7...

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  14. Hail the return of the binary divide 3

    The Higher Education Funding Council for England says that "not every teacher needs to be engaged in research but might be expected to engage in scholarship to inform their work as teachers". Where...

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  15. Managerial madness 2

    Steven Schwartz's article on outdated university governance illustrates knee-jerk managerialist thinking. Management models imported wholesale from business are ill-adapted to a university context,...

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