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Forced marriage
A state-imposed merger of three Welsh institutions threatens self-government in the sector, Barbara Wilding warns
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Strategy for American humanities: blow them up and start again
A declining, out-of-touch discipline and its vocational counterpart must merge to offer a thriving third way, argues Toby Miller
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Freedom from private functions
Great and good launch Council for the Defence of British Universities. David Matthews reports
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Name can't save Loughborough's star department
Loughborough University is to close its highly respected department of information science, despite warnings of "negative reputational impact".
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INTO the deep for debt-hit 'dolphin'?
Gloucestershire has 'no future without public-private partnership', source hears. John Morgan reports
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Notes of support: older generation offers poor most generous packages
Post-1992 bursaries decline in the ?9,000 fees era, IFS research shows. Jack Grove reports
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Hepi downplays fee reform's deterrent effects
There is no evidence to suggest that increasing tuition fees to a maximum of ?9,000 a year has deterred large numbers of students from applying to university, a report has argued.
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Little talk of one direction after trio exit the band
'Reposition yourselves' mission groups are advised as institutions switch allegiance. Jack Grove reports
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It's all in the balance
The growing middle classes will place huge demands on resources; universities have a pivotal role to play in the solution, says David King
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'The 1994 Group is so yesterday' - Targett
"It is difficult to avoid the phrase 'sinking ship'." That was how Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, responded to news that the University of Surrey had joined with Bath and St...
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Finch closed eyes to open alternatives
The evidence from Simon Lilley et al. of publishers earning excessive profits while reducing their tax bills raises further questions about the credibility of the Finch proposals for supporting open...
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Prescription for waste
Regarding "Spare the special pleading" (Letters, 1 November). It is good to know that Kevin Smith's limited knowledge of pharmacy education has not inhibited him from expressing his strident views....
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Responsible leadership (1 of 2)
As deputy academic secretary at the University of Stirling at the time of the Queen's visit in 1972, I, inter alia, served as clerk to the discipline committee, which was anything but the "hopeless...
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Responsible leadership (2 of 2)
I am grateful to correspondents for pointing out a couple of slips of memory (perhaps inevitable after a gap of 40 years) in "A right royal rumpus" (Opinions, 11 October). Lord Wheatley was indeed...