The problems of populism: tactics for Western universities
From Donald Trump to Brexit, John Morgan considers the challenges of a new international political climate聽
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 3 November 2016
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Public engagement 2.0: a university of the city, for the city
Higher education institutions, anchors of their communities, are embracing new civic leadership models, says Robin Hambleton
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Sexual violence on campus: time to put an end to doing nothing
From calling out sexism to empowering students, we must be far more proactive in tackling offences, argues Graham Towl
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Trump is the very definition of 鈥榲ulgar鈥
The word can mean many things 鈥 most of which apply to The聽Donald. Shahidha Bari muses on how the terms of discourse reflect our age
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Pink Lego alone cannot engineer greater diversity
The self-deprecating headline (鈥淏uilding society鈥, Features, 27 October) is misplaced. Notwithstanding the assertion that applications are 鈥渘ot increasing significantly鈥, the quoted figures from the...
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Is that RPI or CPI?
In defence of its offer of a 1.1 per cent inflationary pay increase, our employer rejects the retail price index as a statistically unsound measure of inflation and presses for benchmarks against...
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The last plane out
The prime minister believes that it is essential to reduce the numbers of immigrants. Whatever the cost. Already, non-European Union students know that, if admitted, they are tolerated only while...
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Fool鈥檚 gold
Gun. Foot. Fire. Only in an Olympic year could someone come up with the bizarre proposal to simplify attempts to measure the quality of university teaching into gold, silver and bronze and, at the...
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Significant others
One advantage of having a partner who is an academic (鈥淢arried to the(ir) job: living with an academic鈥, Features, 20 October) is that one can moan about the NSS, TEF, REF, QAA, Hefce, KIS, CSTs and...
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Overseas campuses can be both meaningful and viable
Western universities鈥 desire to go abroad and multiply, in a variety of models, is not always ill-advised