Mad Men don't innovate
The i-Map study ("i-Map finds too many weeds in the portfolio garden", 8 December) found an order of waste in UK universities' new course development, but subjecting new course ideas to conventional...
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Irreligious tones? (1 of 2)
Felipe Fernández-Armesto ("Bless us with a silent night", 8 December) has been listening to the wrong tunes.While Shepherds Watched, a paraphrase of Luke 2: 8-14, may be a little dull when sung to...
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Irreligious tones? (2 of 2)
Jorge Cham, in his cartoon Piled Higher and Deeper (24 November), displays to his credit an inkling of the Lord's Prayer, but his adaptation of it is offensive to anyone who takes Christianity...
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Minds for sports, not ethics
In discussing US universities' sports programmes and, specifically, the alleged child sexual abuse scandal and cover-up at Pennsylvania State University, the article "Say it ain't so, Joe: US sector'...
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Any route to access will do
Wes Streeting's opinion article "Offa's strikes against bursaries not work of fair-access champion" (8 December) wrongly accuses the Office for Fair Access of "directing" universities to divert money...
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Improved outcomes
Geoffrey Channon is quite right to warn us of the careless use of "neoliberal business-speak" such as delivery of courses (Letters, 8 December). However, he is wrong to include in that pernicious...
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For fair access, Oxford needs to drop the snobbery
Not being 'suckered' by posh veneer is the key to succeeding, Baroness Kennedy tells Simon Baker
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Film review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Guy Ritchie's new film is a visceral, action-packed extravaganza. Davina Quinlivan enjoys the ride
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TV review: The Killing II
Sarah Lund is in danger of being upstaged by her sweaters in the hit series The Killing, says Gary Day
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Tom Troscianko, 1953-2011
Tom Troscianko was a fun, intellectually interesting academic who could "turn a trip into an adventure".Born in 1953, Professor Troscianko joined the British Steel Corporation in 1970 as a lab...
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Campus round-up
University of GloucestershireSave the planet (and some cash)Plans for young people to help with projects promoting environmental sustainability in exchange for a discount on tuition fees will be...
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Odds and quads
This brass desk set embellished with ammunition shells belonged to Lieutenant General George Francis Milne (1866-1948), Commander-in-Chief of the British Salonika Army during the First World War.
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Put down the trowel, step away from the bricks and mortar
Critics attack campus building frenzy in the midst of swingeing budget cuts. Jon Marcus reports