The week in higher education – 5 November 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Grant winners – 5 November 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Universities are central to the world of policy
More exchange with the policymaking world will only further academia’s vital role in shaping ideas in society, says Nick?Pearce
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How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated
The work that we do as academics comes wrapped in a tangle of emotions from elation to guilt to disgust, says Aoife Monks
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Adjust course fees so that those who will earn more will pay more
Varying tuition fees by graduate earnings is fair and transparent, argues Dean Machin, and will ensure everyone shares the financial risk
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Aware of what needs doing
University of Oxford Rhodes scholar Donald Brown correctly identifies past instances when the university has fallen short on racial equality, whether it be the events surrounding Malcolm X’s visit or...
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No need for closure
Keith Zimmerman has taken up the role of university secretary at the Open University (Appointments, 29 October). This post, the biggest of its kind in the UK, was not advertised externally. Zimmerman...
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Digital watchmen
I cannot be the only reader who felt a sense of profound gratitude on reading of the efforts of Gavin McLachlan, chief information officer and librarian at the University of Edinburgh, to help...
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Liberal demise
Clare Callender incisively describes the decline in part-time undergraduate study since 2010-11 (“We must act now to save part-time university education”, Opinion, 29 October).? My former employer,...
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Laurie Taylor – 5 November 2015
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On improving diversity, the sector has a clear choice: lead or be led
With a minister intent on ‘revolution’, there is a tactical, as well as a moral, case for universities to focus on improving ethnic minority representation