Cultural soldiers mass in the academic ranks
Their emphasis on cultivating understanding makes universities natural homes for those at war with their societies, says Shahidha Bari
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Engage better with universities or England’s apprenticeship programme will fail
Employers and workers want higher-level skills but apprenticeship infrastructure is still built around further education, says Adrian Anderson
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Marketisation is behind rows over v-cs’ pay and other urgent questions
Market forces unleashed on the UK university sector have pushed up senior pay, fuelled the rows over it and posed questions about ‘value for money’ that are shaping the future of universities
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What does ‘value for money’ mean for English higher education?
Andrew McRae explores what effects the value debate could have on the structure of the sector
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New and noteworthy – 22 February 2018
Revolution in Ukraine; the complexities of judging; international espionage past and present; neurogastronomy; and the surprising longevity of the kibbutz
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What are you reading? – 22 February 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Enlightenment Now: A Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress, by Steven Pinker
Book of the week: Biancamaria Fontana on a masterly defence of the values of modernity against ‘progressophobes’
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Laurie Taylor – 22 February 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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The Times Higher Education v-c pay survey 2018
Our annual pay review details v-cs’ remuneration, explores the make-up and workings of the governing bodies that set it, and compares the rewards on offer with those of other sectors
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Review points: fees, part-timers, work and study
With the government launching a review of higher education funding, there has been talk about cutting the tuition fees cap or the interest on student loans. This would be terrible politics and...
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Family-friendly
In your article “Elites ‘offer the best maternity provision’” (News, 8 February), you discuss a paper by Vera Troeger and Mariaelisa Epifanio, which names our university as one that offers no weeks...
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Web of knowledge
In their opinion article “Prints charming” (8 February) Al Martinich and Tom Palaima make an important claim that is demonstrably untrue. It is that the building of libraries in the US by the...
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Bad behaviours
In the opinion article “Hell hath no fury…” (8 February), an anonymous academic describes the pain and anger that they feel after being wrongly suspended by a manager. I can sympathise with that...