Not such a bargain after all
I see the Russell Group are now quoting a figure of £160,000 in increased lifetime earnings for their graduates, in order to justify increasing their tuition fees.There must be some difficulty in...
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Affair comment
Oh dear. Margot Feelbetter's advice to an academic whose colleague may be having a relationship with a student ("Blog Confidential", May) demonstrates all the confusions of the prurient but misses...
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Recognise anyone?
Nathan Emmerich (Letters, May) is rightly concerned at the promotion of a view of research students as infantile. But humour has a long and respected role in challenging the status quo. Jorge Cham's...
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Sign in haste, repent later
Regarding the Fruitbatgate affair ("Yikes! Attack of the killer viral fruit bats", May), I would argue that the reputational damage has been done not to University College Cork but to the 3,763...
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Engineering change
John Turner (Letters, May) has not provided any specific examples of universities that have been prevented from introducing innovative engineering curricula by professional bodies' requirements. If...
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Attractive forces at work
Being brilliant academically isn't enough any more - if you want your career to soar you need to cultivate your erotic capital assets. Catherine Hakim advises scholars to use everything they've got
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My eureka moment: Nothing to lose but the washing up
Rebellion was everywhere in the 1960s, recalls Sally Feldman, but Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch made the most audacious demand of all: for a feminist revolution that was personal and political
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Through 'the Keyhole' utopia
Tino Sehgal's art installation This Progress offered something rare: a space where participating academics could converse without goals in mind. Rachel Adams on a precious experience
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3 June 2010
Does my brain look big in this? - A little applied research can get results
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Tara Brabazon: Hold it to teach it
Having spent years earning the right to teach undergraduates, Tara Brabazon knows very well that ‘experience’ is nothing like a degree
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Hertfordshire appoints new vice-chancellor
Quintin McKellar, principal of the Royal Veterinary College, will take over from Tim Wilson when he retires, writes Sarah Cunnane
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From taboo to hot topic
By Elizabeth Redden for Inside Higher Ed
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UCU vows to fight government’s ‘ignorance policy’
Union decries coalition’s £1.5bn cuts to universities and £8bn gift to business. Simon Baker reports
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Money down the silo
Universities overlook ways to make savings simply because they do not focus on institution-wide schemes, argues Microsoft’s Ray Fleming
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Chancellor follows v-c out at Gloucestershire
Lord Carey leaves post with ‘great sadness’. Simon Baker reports