Odds are good for HE legislation, but don’t count your chickens
Hanging too many measures on a bill can cause it to topple over, argues Nick Hillman
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Why you shouldn’t go on holiday with an academic
There’s no rest for the lifelong learning brigade, says Shahidha Bari
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Laurie Taylor – 8 October 2015
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Happy to make some changes
While one cannot but applaud “change initiatives” of the kind described by Steve Olivier, deputy vice-chancellor (academic) at Abertay University, it is inaccurate to view “most universities as...
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Admit the problems
Zahir Irani exposes the multitude of problems with our admissions service (“A changing game: the need to rethink student admissions”, 2 October). The removal of student number controls is sending...
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Playing to hype
Reading Michelle Morgan’s letter made me think about those naive shopper-undergraduates and the role of guides and ranking tables as they make their otherwise uninformed choice (“Marketing failures...
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Healthy equality
Victoria Bateman identifies economics as sexist (“Is economics a sexist science?”, Opinion, 15 September). That may be true of mainstream economics, but it is certainly not true of the field that we...
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Knowledge porridge
That subject knowledge itself is not even mentioned among “What students prize about UK higher education ” (News, 1 October) caused us almost to choke on our breakfast. Has university become purely...
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Step up and join the band
The definition of teaching quality may be tangled up, but it’s in everyone’s interest to find a satisfactory measure
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Janet Beer: ministers should not publicly criticise university teaching
University of Liverpool vice-chancellor says remarks harm UK’s global reputation
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Altmetrics risk becoming part of problem, not solution, warns academic
Scholar urges delegates at conference in the Netherlands to use measures like Twitter to measure public engagement, rather than turning them into new metrics