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The universities and science minister on post-graduate student numbers, the public spending review, and the sustainability of the student loans system
Southampton shows teeth and watchdog backs down Subscription
Russell Group member successfully appeals against full QAA review
QAA grossly overestimates student workloads Subscription
Hepi/Which? uncovers huge shortfall in study time
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Cash for R&D or wider access? UUK wants both Subscription
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UCU Left’s call to go for growth decried as ‘gamble’ Subscription
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UK 'fly in, fly out' scholars fail to take off in China Subscription
Feature: 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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Feature: 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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For richer, for poorer
Husband-and-wife academics debate the merits of the research excellence framework
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Social arts trample liberal arts
The divisive country-club culture at ‘Midwest University’ that places status above study and raises partying to a vocation
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Opinion: 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
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
Curriculum blind eye
It’s not what you teach but how that matters, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Evidence and insight be damned
In the training of teachers, ministers seem determined to sideline universities with little thought for the consequences
BBC got it right and LSE lost perspective
The LSE’s complaints about undercover reporting in North Korea are peevish, Tim Luckhurst argues
Tuition fees: a human rights issue
Geraldine Van Bueren says international law could help opponents of rising tuition costs in their battle
Nightmare at 20,000ft
Toby Miller recalls a paralysing encounter with terror in the skies and asks: in my shoes, would you have reacted differently?
Wagner: bicentennial man
Malcolm Gillies on the controversial composer’s undimmed power
'Lend me your ears shock' Subscription
One of our leading psychologists, Dr Fritz Itzig, is currently languishing in a police cell after a day-long series of attempts to increase the research impact of his work…
Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet by Finn Brunton Subscription
Unsolicited emails can be a costly nuisance, says John Gilbey
Hollywood and Hitler 1933-1939 by Thomas Doherty Subscription
Philip Kemp on how the American film industry reacted variously to the rise of fascism in Germany
Tocqueville: The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty by Lucien Jaume, translated by Arthur Goldhammer Subscription
Biancamaria Fontana on the influences that shaped a French aristocrat’s ambiguous view of democracy from his studies of the American model
Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity by Daniel Stolzenberg Subscription
James Stevens Curl on a summary of Kircher’s hieroglyphic studies in the context of 17th-century scholarship on paganism and oriental languages
