Why so prickly?
International students have enriched the UK and its universities immeasurably. It makes little sense for the 糖心Vlog Office to keep them out, argues Edward Acton
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We're only unclogging the 'brain circulation' (2 of 2)
Nicola Dandridge is correct in only one respect in her assessment of the coverage of Dutch universities in the British media. British students are not yet flocking to the Netherlands, nor are they...
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Drink least of our worries
Muslim students at London Metropolitan University and elsewhere must be groaning in despair at Malcolm Gillies' recent ill-advised comments about alcohol and Islam ("Raising the bars a 'moral' matter...
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No laughing matter
Philip Diamond is wrong to think that Michael Duff's cultural impact should allay his concerns about the impact agenda ("Winning formula", Letters, 12 April). Pathways to Impact requires researchers...
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Multiple feedback
Regarding your news story "QAA's new riff on student feedback: positive notes or waves of jargon?" (12 April): although criticisms are understandable, it is good to see that the Quality Assurance...
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Breaking totem's taboos
In his review of The Freud Files: An Inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis (29 March), John Forrester berates the fact that we did not write a cultural history of psychoanalysis and its...
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Grit and pearls of wisdom
Your focus on the value of failure is to be welcomed ("Get back in the saddle", 29 March). It may well be salutary to stress that all need not always have prizes. It is surely also true that...
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Rune with a view
The "pictured engravings" in "Norse code" (12 April) are not runes, but the only figural ornaments accompanying the 33 12th-century Norse runic inscriptions in Maeshowe (which is a chambered cairn,...
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We're only unclogging the 'brain circulation' (1 of 2)
It is flattering that the chief executive of Universities UK has been so impressed by the "marketing" of Dutch universities in the UK that she has spent some of her valuable time writing about it in...
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Richard Descoings, 1958-2012
Richard Descoings, who was the director of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, has been described by colleagues as "a tremendously charismatic figure" and has been praised by Nicolas Sarkozy,...
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Campus round-up
London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineLess is moreScientists have identified a gene that reduces the risk of younger women contracting breast cancer by lowering their oestrogen levels. A...
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19 April 2012
Stitched up - New student-visa pattern required for a government that has lost the thread
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Restructuring metrics could fail to add up
Queen Mary job cuts may lead to sliding standards and debased teaching. Paul Jump reports
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AAB announcement imminent, as government reflects on 鈥榮trong views鈥 in sector
David Willetts has said that he intends to let universities know 鈥渂y the end of the month鈥 whether the grade threshold at which university places are removed from the cap on numbers is to be lowered...