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Postgraduate teacher trainingLabour's top-down reward schemeA Labour government would pay off part of high-flying students' tuition fees in exchange for a commitment to work as teachers in deprived...
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Rights and proper debate
Geraldine Van Bueren urges the British Academy to extend the discussion about the pros and cons of a UK Bill of Rights
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Body poles apart, for it maps the icy contours of science and politics
The British Antarctic Survey serves two masters and may need independent funding to meet its mission, suggests Klaus Dodds
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This old house
A controversial article by a Poppleton academic in the latest edition of The British Journal of Experimental Symbolism (Vol 22: 33-74) suggests a strong symbolic connection between the present...
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Ill-conceived checks a passport to distrust (1 of 2)
Scott Poynting and Ann Singleton's opinion piece ("You look foreign: bring your passport, it's what the UKBA would want", 4 October) highlights the dangers of unintentional racism if higher education...
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Ill-conceived checks a passport to distrust (2 of 2)
Our universities' craven complicity with the government's racist "immigration policy" shames us all. Resigning as external examiners - and refusing to cover for others - rather than supplying...
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Doctoring the tenure track
Earlier this year I got involved in quite detailed conversations with my head of department about a tenured post at the university where I currently teach one day a week as an assistant lecturer....
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Dated criticism
"Red alert" ( September), your feature on the cost of the government's policies for financing higher education, gives an excellent and balanced account of the issues. It shows why we should all be...
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Shelf protection
It is indeed sad that the successful bid by the London School of Economics to take over the Women's Library does not include the purpose-designed building in Old Castle Street, Whitechapel, currently...
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Top jobs for the boys (1 fo 3)
As someone embarking on my first managerial role (head of department), I turned to the feature "Breeding leaders" ( September) for ideas and inspiration. I experienced the opposite.Apart from...
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Top jobs for the boys (2 of 3)
The interests and skills associated with being a vice-chancellor described in "Breeding leaders" seem reasonable enough: research and publications, advising senior staff, controlling costs, ventures...
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Top jobs for the boys (3 of 3)
Six vice-chancellors from the ranks of middle and senior management may seem an impressive record for the University of Southampton a mere 60 years on from its royal charter, but sub specie...
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Step on you erratum
I am the outgoing head of student administration at the University of Salford (soon to be the head of registry at the Royal Northern College of Music) and a new subscriber to your publication. I was...
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Bunch of rankers
Last week, THE published its long-awaited World University Rankings - and also reported rankings of a different sort (The week in higher education, 4 October). According to a psychology journal paper...
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The Bologna chorus: harmony from two tones of same note
Higher education has room for both high ideals and pragmatism, Matthew Reisz hears in Bologna