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Is the biomedical research facility dubbed 鈥楽ir Paul鈥檚 cathedral鈥 built on sound foundations?

Is the biomedical research facility dubbed 鈥楽ir Paul鈥檚 cathedral鈥 built on sound foundations?

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The media鈥檚 sneering attacks on the Labour leader鈥檚 limited tertiary study fail to recognise that academic qualifications are not political science, says Martin McQuillan
When the government introduced new policies for higher education fees, it ignored warnings that repayment rates would be much lower than it had claimed. Now that it has acknowledged those lower...
Your anonymous correspondent鈥檚 account of reviewing for the research excellence framework substantially reflects my own experience as a panellist in 2008 who was offered the chance to be renominated...
There are plenty of things that drive me nuts about the higher education sphere and its planetary system, but one of the worst offenders is the contention by 鈥渆mployers鈥 that students lack 鈥渟kills鈥...
While Richard Black may be correct that good research and good teaching can go together, they often do not (鈥淗ave universities really neglected teaching?鈥, Opinion, 19 November). Few lecturers can...
Writing with the authority of a former head of Ofsted, Sir David Bell, now vice-chancellor of the University of Reading, writes: 鈥淭here is an opportunity to create a proportionate, sensible system...
The recent article 鈥淗as the multi-campus university had its day?鈥 is a fashion statement (19 November). The use of terms such as 鈥渃riminal鈥, 鈥渟hort-sighted鈥 and 鈥渄isgrace鈥 by critics of London...