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  2. Off Piste: Truths, lies and Gallic shrugs

    Martin Cohen, a long-term resident of Normandy, presents a gourmet repast of his 11 favourite myths about the French, from barefaced fibs to insouciant self-deception and charming vérité

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    #Off Piste

  3. The week in higher education

    Credit: Nick Newman•"At my signal, unleash hell" - not David Willetts launching the new fees system, but the most famous line from a Hollywood actor who apparently yearns to work in UK higher...

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    #The week in HE

  4. From where I sit - How to ride the blue tide

    If you look at a map showing the results of last week's Canadian federal election, you will see a tiny dot of red on the north shore of Lake Ontario, surrounded by a sea of unrelieved Tory blue. Yes...

    #From Where I Sit
    #Opinion

  5. Appointments

    Staffordshire UniversityRosy CrehanA clarinettist and fashion expert has been appointed executive pro vice-chancellor at Staffordshire University. Rosy Crehan, formerly dean of the Faculty of Arts at...

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    #People

  6. Insane in the membrane

    Felipe Fernández-Armesto can’t wait to flee the madness infecting the UK

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    #Felipe Fernandez Armesto
    #Opinion

  7. Back from the brink

    A name change - along with the inauguration of a new chancellor this week - is intended to mark the start of a new era for the former Thames Valley University. Rebecca Attwood delves into the...

    #Features

  8. Metric misses the full picture of PhD study (1 of 3)

    Once again the crude metric of a PhD "completion rate" is used to assess quality ("Poor English a key diagnosis for failure to make PhD grade", 5 May).Blinkered uniformity is often sought for...

    #Letters

  9. Metric misses the full picture of PhD study (2 of 3)

    Recruiting international students with a substandard quality of written English is a dilemma that is commonly faced by tutors working in UK higher education.But this crisis is most pronounced in the...

    #Letters

  10. Metric misses the full picture of PhD study (3 of 3)

    The problem of poor PhD completion rates may not be language proficiency alone. Undergraduate degrees in many Asian and Middle Eastern countries do not adequately prepare students to think critically...

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  11. Whither London Met? (1 of 2)

    Malcolm Gillies, the vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, neatly encapsulates what is wrong with so much of the student-as-consumer model when it is applied to the function of a...

    #Letters

  12. Whither London Met? (2 of 2)

    I wish to alert readers to how cuts are being imposed on London Metropolitan University's Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Languages and Education (Hale). Of 14 subject areas, only six will remain, in...

    #Letters

  13. Sophisticated chuckles

    Chris Duke thinks I'm naive to suggest that it is the duty of academia to laugh at government while still taking its money ("Impact joke is on us", Letters, 28 April).But I did not say that we should...

    #Letters

  14. Ranter's charter

    Congratulations to Fred Inglis on his wonderful parody of Leavisism ("Words as weapons", 5 May). He has perfectly captured its paranoid rhetoric and updated the wilful ignorance of anything F.R....

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  15. A share of learning

    As privatisation encroaches upon the UK higher education sector, should the academic and administrative staff of universities be encouraged to buy their university in order to keep their destiny in...

    #Letters