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  1. Who's in? Who's out?

    University of the arts, London Jane Rapley, who helped launch some of the biggest names in fashion, will become the new head of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design from August 1. Ms...

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  2. Salford seeks mediation

    Poor report leads Salford to shake up grievance policy, writes Phil Baty Salford University is pioneering a "mediation" service after an internal report found that staff have little faith in the...

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  3. Today's news

    Skills are rusting away Rolls-Royce warned yesterday that it is being forced to recruit overseas because Britain is failing to produce enough youngsters suitably qualified in science and technology...

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  6. Laurie Taylor Column

    " Struggle to fill v-c job vacancies " - The Times Higher, July 21 University of Poppleton Vice-Chancellor and President Following the retirement of the current vice-chancellor for overwhelming...

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  7. Leader: Change of course for access drive

    There appears to be a growing consensus (among the politicians, at least) that the time has come for a reappraisal of the drive to widen participation in higher education. For Labour, Bill Rammell,...

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    #Opinion

  8. Leader: Cheap deals are costly

    Vice-chancellors insist that they will not use scholarship and bursary funds to do deals in clearing if recruitment is poor, but that is not the impression given to prospective students at all...

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    #Opinion

  9. Get more winners in grant lottery 1

    Tim Birkhead's column "The UK's great £19.5m lottery" (Working Knowledge, July 21) has implications beyond the dishing out of grant funding. It resonates with recent articles and letters about the...

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  10. Get more winners in grant lottery 2

    If Tim Birkhead is worried about the waste involved in failed grant proposals now, he had better hope that the funding councils don't include research grant income in a metrics-based system. One...

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  11. Get more winners in grant lottery 3

    A simple analogy shows why the use of metrics is a madder idea than the philosophically and methodologically fraudulent research assessment exercise, which disfigures and corrupts higher education in...

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  12. Mistrust and misuse 1

    It was with some dismay that I read Geoffrey Copland's article about the future of industrial relations (Opinion, July 21). The national bargaining arrangements are in place to ensure that staff in...

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  13. Mistrust and misuse 2

    I was amused by how Niall Mackay's letter (July 14) proved Susan Bassnett's argument on misunderstandings about university finances (Working Knowledge, July 7). With one third of tuition fees to be...

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  14. People skills needed

    The report "Struggle to fill v-c job vacancies" (July 21) raises two issues. The first is that the emphasis of the new recruitment focus appears to be whether vice-chancellors can cope with financial...

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  15. Postgrad posts 1

    The articles "Postgraduates told: those who can, teach" and "Juggling staff have crisis of identity" (July 7) both point out the inadequacy of the research PhD as preparation for an academic career....

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