Keep your rights
Keith Taber (Letters, 3 May) is absolutely right that authors should refuse to waive their moral rights if a publisher asks. The standard legal text on author/publisher contracts, Clark’s Publishing...
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Anti-boy bias
The first paragraph of the feature on the increasing number of women in higher education, “Why is Martha doing better than Arthur?” (10 May), says it all: “There are now more women than men in higher...
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State supporter
Re the item about me and a recent speech I delivered (The Week in Higher Education, 10 May): guilty as charged. I did spend most of my career in private schools, although it was not for want of...
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Bonds arms race hots up as Cambridge looks to borrow £600 million
University faces criticism for ‘property developer’ strategy in wake of Oxford’s £750 million issuing
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UK-Ireland deal on post-Brexit student flows ‘imperils EU links’
Giving Irish undergraduates continued access to home fee status and loans could be discriminatory, experts warn
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The week in higher education – 17 May 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Measly recommendations will not cure HE funding’s political sickness
With the consultation now closed, Philip Augar’s review of English post-18 education must begin the hard work of devising substantial but cost-effective proposals, says Andy Westwood
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Losing my memory stick was unforgettably brain-beating
If his late-night photos of the senior common room Christmas party made it into wider circulation, John Brinnamoor would be a dead man
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Teaching the young to manage their lives is the opposite of infantilisation
Critics of his initiative to make the University of Buckingham drugs-free are missing the point about the power of education, says Anthony Seldon
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Let the lightning of academic freedom strike
Gathering intellectual antagonists under the same roof contains the incendiary electricity of controversy and redirects it to generate sparks of new knowledge, says Carel Stolker
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Scientists wanted
In “Good luck, you’re going to need it”, her review of The Effective Scientist by Corey Bradshaw (3 May), Jennifer Rohn begins by painting a “bleak” picture of the prospects of a young scientist’s...
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Are comments on students’ clothing OK? It depends, say academics on Twitter
A Twitter poll on whether or not lecturers should ever comment on students’ attire attracted almost 400 responses, but the replies quickly became more complex than just ‘yes’ or ‘no’