Laurie Taylor – 27 July 2017
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Long-distance learning: building a university on a South Pacific island
Bernard Leeman, anti-apartheid fighter and peripatetic champion of low-cost rural tertiary education, describes the circuitous route he took to Vanuatu
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Doubt over HEA process: how did we get here?
The basic tenet of “Credibility of UK’s teaching fellowship process under scrutiny” (News, 27 July) is to cast doubt on the reliability of the Higher Education Academy teaching accreditation process...
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Excessively diverted
Jo Johnson, the universities and science minister, and Lord Adonis, the former education minister, have criticised the high salaries of vice-chancellors, suggesting that this is unacceptable in the...
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What Plan B?
I envy those who have the option of leaving academia (“Vocation, vexation, salvation”, Features, 13 July). Women are often more able to make this move than men, but I’m the breadwinner. I was...
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Does not translate
I have always found Felipe Fernández-Armesto’s opinions stimulating, not least because I am often in disagreement, at least partially, with them. In “Translation: steer clear” (Opinion, 13 July), I ...
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Who should have the final say on vice-chancellors’ pay?
Amid fresh criticism of executive remuneration, perhaps universities need to rethink the issue of vice-chancellors’ salaries
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Russia presses ahead with thousands of science job cuts
Forty per cent of state-funded student places to be axed also
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Trump’s historically black colleges initiative runs into trouble
US president struggling to find executive director for scheme, according to reports
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Anglo-Australian alliance nets first science PhD
Monash-Warwick Alliance graduate researched chemistry PhD in England and Australia
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Letting in disadvantaged students with lower grades doesn’t always help
Helping students into ‘tougher’ universities means that they are statistically more likely to drop out, says Huw Owen