Brazil nuts for Blighty
I read with interest "Steep costs deter Brazil's experience seekers" (News, 8 November).The UK 糖心Vlog International Unit runs the Science without Borders (SwB) UK programme, under which 10,...
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Star-spangled clangers
There are two serious problems with recruiting big-name researchers in the run-up to the research excellence framework ("Reach for the stars", 1 November).First, the financial headroom required to...
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Thin on top
Your article on the question of academics with doctorates tells only half the story ("Proportion of academics with PhDs is 'low'", 1 November).There is a growing body of university managers, deans,...
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Life coaching (1 of 2)
Michael Somerton is undoubtedly correct in asserting that "becoming an effective teacher should be seen as a long-term process" ("Qualified expectations", Letters, 8 November). However, this does not...
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Life coaching (2 of 2)
Michael Somerton suggests that becoming an effective teacher ends only "on retirement". Following the suggestion by Vanessa Pupavac, lecturer in international relations at the University of...
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Do tell them, pike
If one is looking for an apt new slogan for the academy ("The new motto for the marketplace: all for one and none for all", 15 November), R.H. Tawney's famous quote from Equality (1931), "Freedom for...
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Measuring up
The letter commenting on university rankings and men's endowment no doubt has been reported favourably by the media in every country ("Bunch of rankers", 11 October). After all, we all want to come...
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Fred flag flying
Regarding "Shiny happy periodicals" (15 November): thank God for Fred Inglis!Susan Powell, Chair of medieval texts and culture, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of...
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No boom, no bust for rentier model
Supportive voices petition Cambridge authority over massive property deal. John Morgan reports
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US student imports and exports hit record levels
The number of overseas students attending university in the US reached a record 764,495 during the 2011-12 academic year, according to figures from the Institute of International Education.The data,...
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Canberra's watchdog: teething pains or too many teeth?
Australia swapped its higher education quality agency for a body with more powers and a much bigger appetite for detail. A year later, the sector is still eyeing Teqsa warily, reports Paul Jump
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Victor Anderson, 1922-2012
A research oceanographer who made a major contribution to the development of sonar has died.Victor Anderson was born on 31 March 1922 to missionary parents in Shanghai, where his father was principal...
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Royal Holloway, University of LondonSuffer the migrant childrenA film charting the plight of a young Afghan refugee deported from the UK has been submitted as evidence to a parliamentary human rights...
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