Poetry scandal! Scarlet woman Padel versus sex-pest Nobel man! Disgraced professor resigns! Oh, calm down chaps. Unpick what actually happened over the Oxford poetry professorship, and only then decide who is the most disgusting. In brief: Derek Walcott left the contest in dudgeon after a (still anonymous) mailshot and a minxy article digging up sexual harassment accusations more than two decades ago. It was all on Wikipedia anyway. Ruth Padel, the other strong contender, denies being behind this.
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SOME of the country’s most academic schools are discouraging pupils from applying to popular courses at Durham University in protest at what they see as an admissions system “fixed” against them.
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Many people look back on their time at university as the best days of their life, but a surprising number would take a different degree if they could choose again.
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BRITAIN’S worst-taught degree courses, including some at the country’s top universities, have been revealed by research into students’ attitudes.
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British universities have slipped down the world rankings as they compete ever harder with eminent institutions overseas.
Cambridge and Oxford have lost ground to Harvard and Yale, while fewer British universities are in the top 200 list, published today, than last year.
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