NSS fitness hardly a given
If you were to believe some parts of the academy, you would think that the National Student Survey is widely viewed as a positive force, providing useful information to both prospective students and...
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OIA remains the final refuge
I write to dissociate the Improving Dispute Resolution Advisory Service in the strongest possible terms from any suggestion that we consider the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher...
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Clip Swan's wings
Upon opening last week's copy of 糖心Vlog, I flicked to the Letters pages eager to read the undoubted responses to the plethora of articles on equality and diversity in the 25 August...
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When the boasts come in
Jeremy Black deplores the grandiose claims routinely made by academic book blurbs ("Greatest story ever told", 1 September), but this is just one instance of the boasting that now echoes through so...
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Coming round again
Michael Scott, vice-chancellor of Glyndwr University, claims his institution is being brave and bold in having a "lower-cost, highly vocational" university education that will be "open to all" ("'...
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Action Nerd
I don't think I would have gone into science had I not been influenced by gender programming via the many exciting ranges of scientist action figure toys ("Where is Physics Barbie?", 25 August).Ultra...
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Totally bogus
I was most amused to read David Willetts' comments that it should be possible for someone to "rent an office block and say you could study here for five key vocational qualifications" (The week in...
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Something's lacking
"Interviews with Indian villagers have cast doubt on whether wealth is the best measure of poverty" (Campus round-up, 1 September): I think the researchers actually found that lack of wealth was a...
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Film review: Jane Eyre
Despite reservations about yet another version of a classic story, Duncan Wu enjoys a faithful rendition
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TV review: Nature's Miracle Babies
Gary Day sees parallels between the 19th-century novel and anthropomorphic tales of rare animals
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Paul Wilkinson, 1937-2011
A leading international expert on terrorism, equally adept at offering his insights to academic audiences, policymakers or the public, has died.Paul Wilkinson was born in Harrow, Middlesex and...
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THE Scholarly Web
Ambitious undergraduates are aware of it, PhD students fear it and applicants often despair of it: competition in the academic job market is very tough indeed.
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Campus round-up
University of RoehamptonValuable depositsLemur droppings may hold the key to the survival of Madagascar's unique rainforests. A new study by academics at the University of Roehampton found that the...
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Odds and quads
This glass and steel cross, which now stands at the heart of the University of Chester's main campus on Parkgate Road, was originally created as an anguished response to the political climate of the...
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Brazil invests to expand tropic of learning into rural areas...
...but some question the focus and quality in plans to add more than 800,000 places, writes Paul Jump