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Feature: Every picture tells a history
Today’s students are impoverished by a scant knowledge of culture and context, but the story of art should be a sine qua non of any well-rounded curriculum
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Why hiring academics is too important to be left to other academics
Decisions based on gossip and favouritism make the scholarly job market unmeritocratic
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Bleak prognosis for health funding budget transfer
Treatment to avoid cuts would do more harm than good, critics say
Feature: Every picture tells a history
Today’s students are impoverished by a scant knowledge of culture and context, but the story of art should be a sine qua non of any well-rounded curriculum
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THE podcast: David Willetts
The universities and science minister on post-graduate student numbers, the public spending review, and the sustainability of the student loans system
Bleak prognosis for health funding budget transfer Subscription
Treatment to avoid cuts would do more harm than good, critics say
Futurelearn plans Moocs for mobiles Subscription
UK-based provider is readying itself for launch in the autumn
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Russell Group chair weighs in against tuition fee cap Subscription
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OECD finds greater efficiency outside the elite Subscription
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‘Graduate premium’ is shrinking fast Subscription
Feature: Every picture tells a history
Today’s students are impoverished by a scant knowledge of culture and context, but the story of art should be a sine qua non of any well-rounded curriculum
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Feature: Every picture tells a history
Today’s students are impoverished by a scant knowledge of culture and context, but the story of art should be a sine qua non of any well-rounded curriculum
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‘Something new in freedom’
Alastair Bonnett visits Lincoln’s Social Science Centre, a cooperative, free university attempting to build a different kind of knowledge economy
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My worst student
Somewhere, in a class past or future, your nemesis awaits. John Kaag on the existential terror of a pedagogical puzzle
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A plague of plagiarism at the heart of politics
Germany and Eastern Europe rocked by string of high-profile cases within their governments. Paul Jump reports
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Why hiring academics is too important to be left to other academics
Decisions based on gossip and favouritism make the scholarly job market unmeritocratic
Snap decisions
Getting image permissions for monographs is costly, slow and vexing
Take the rough with the smooth
Adrian Furnham has had his share of peer review nightmares, but the frailties of the system have also worked in his favour
No laughing matter
Where have all the student satirists gone? wonders Sally Feldman
Not what the doctor ordered
Moving health research and education funding to the Department of Health may mean higher education loses its voice
NYU president on global universities, ‘idea capitals’ and ‘talent snowballs’
Universities are more important than ever to the development of great cities and knowledge economies, argues John Sexton
Human psychology (with emphasis on the human)
Technology augments but cannot supersede intuition, argues Annette Karmiloff-Smith
AstraZeneca’s move will increase North-South divide
Research facility clusters mean the benefits are too localised, say Henry Overman and Christian Helmers
Opinion: Disconnect the narcissistic network
The humanities classroom offers reflection of a healthier sort, says Robert Zaretsky
Hitch in (and out of) time
Christopher Bigsby on the declining art of taking a hike
Nul points for agency standard
The gulf between the QAA benchmark on study time and the hours students put in raises questions about its judgement
Physics veterans bring harmony to different universe
Reformed graduate rock band provokes reflections on how much has changed since the heyday of ‘Spontaneous Emissions’
Can Hefce still land a ‘big beast’?
Bahram Bekhradnia on funding chiefs’ hunt for a new leader
Opinion: ‘Middle third’ way to flexibility
Andy Westwood and Martin Doel map a route between FE and HE
Opinion: Artful entreaties
Humanities scholars must use dash and pluck to win research cash
The first lesson of higher education: be prepared
The work of making students ‘college-ready’ must begin sooner, says Alan Ryan
Groupings with the X Factor
As research intensives band together to pool resources, they could be showing us the best way to weather the downturn
Fay Weldon speaks up for creative writing
If creativity can’t be taught, the invaluable craft of writing can, says novelist and Bath Spa professor
UUK shows Britain losing ground in foreign enrolments
Nicola Dandridge says mixed messages on immigration aid competitor nations’ university sectors
Research standards must be maintained
Rather than the academy relaxing its ethical standards, perhaps areas of the media need to raise their game, argues Keith Richards
Geza Vermes, 1924-2013 Subscription
A leading expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish background to the New Testament has died
Over my dead body! Subscription
“I’ll murder you!” she screamed, stabbing at his heart with the blackboard pointer. “How dare you interfere with my 59!”
What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France by Mary Louise Roberts Subscription
Fiona Reid on the military life’s inherent brutality
Payback: The Case for Revenge by Thane Rosenbaum Subscription
Judith Rowbotham on the arguments for a justice system that enables a victim to be avenged
Making Scientists: Six Principles for Effective College Teaching by Gregory Light and Marina Micari Subscription
Averil Macdonald on a US system of collaborative learning in which facilitator students help their peers to learn
Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust: The Jimmy Savile Scandal by Frank Furedi Subscription
R. Danielle Egan on an analysis of scandals that fails to link them with a sociological narrative
