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ART AND DESIGN- Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800-1940By Dianne Sachko Macleod, professor of art history, University of California....
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From where I sit - Quality tested by growing pains
The quality of a university is best measured by the kind of student it turns out rather than the kind it takes in. How, though, do you improve quality in the midst of accelerating expansion? The...
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Pork-pie man tipped for top QAA job
A flurry of excitement ran round our campus last week as the news emerged that Mr Ken Stribling, the CEO of Poppleton Pork Products, was in line for appointment as the new Chair of the QAA.Mr...
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Obama's promise is global
A black president would mean most abroad, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Leader: Premium brand at risk
Perceptions that the UK is 'aloof' from the Bologna Process are grossly unfair - but they could prove damaging
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John Barron, 1934-2008
John Barron, a Classics scholar who played a key role in the reform of British higher education, has died.He was born in Morley, West Yorkshire, on April 1934, the son of a mathematics teacher, and...
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Oxford won't take second best to hit targets, says Patten
The chancellor of the University of Oxford entered the debate on university admissions this week, saying that it was "as offensive" to suggest that Oxford was biased against independent schools as to...
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Free debate is the way to defeat creationism 1
Michael Reiss, former education director at the Royal Society, is right ("Royal Society is considering casting out God", 25 September), creationism needs to be defeated by open debate. By ignoring it...
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Free debate is the way to defeat creationism 2
James D. Williams (Letters, 25 September) asks for more peer-reviewed research from the "intelligent-design creationist" school of thought. Is he unaware of what happens on those rare occasions when...
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Not at all vulnerable
I am pleased that the article "Lower fees for foreign students" (25 September) recognised the University of Bedfordshire's great strength in international recruitment. However, by underestimating the...
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Good news for journalism
How disappointing to read Tim Luckhurst, the new director of the Centre for Journalism at the University of Kent, suggesting that journalism studies offers practitioners only "meagre pickings" and...
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Schwartz did not back SATs
Your report on recent research into US-style SATs was wrong in stating that the Schwartz inquiry into fair admissions recommended the use of these tests ("The week in higher education", 18 September...
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Full-cost fees are not fair 1
George Psacharopoulos states that institutions should charge full-cost fees up to and beyond the £20,000-plus that the University of Oxford has been saying for some time it needs to cover its annual...
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Full-cost fees are not fair 2
The key flaw in George Psacharopoulos' argument for charging full-cost fees is that universities do not produce "average graduates". They produce some graduates who earn relatively little during...
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A campus carry-on
Thanks for reminding us all of that lost classic of saucy British cinema Carry on up the Quad ("Striptease results in official campus cover-up", 18 September), in which Mac Daly, cultural studies...