What are you reading? 鈥 27 October 2016
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Advantage Britain: ruling the education world post-Brexit
With the right strategies, becoming the leading country for scholarship and science is within the UK鈥檚 grasp, says Jamie Martin
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Building a future for engineering
Five engineers set out why engineering is part of our everyday lives and what universities can do to change the way it is taught
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Building blocks for BRICS excellence
World-leading institutions will require greater funding, internationalisation and autonomy, says C. Raj Kumar
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 27 October 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Grant winners 鈥 27 October 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Laureate land: Nobel prizewinners by country of origin
America is head and shoulders above other nations in attracting and retaining prizewinning scientists
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A part-time PhD not for turning
Gayle Munro on the disparaging comment that fuelled her thesis and the perception that non-traditional doctoral students lack commitment
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London Met on the wrong path
Universities are not teaching factories. They are spaces of critical thinking and debate. Academic freedom cannot survive in a state of perpetual fear. Yet this is a pretty concise description of the...
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Skills for the job
The ongoing spiel you hear from employers is that graduates lack the skills they need to succeed in the workplace. I wonder if we鈥檝e produced graduates in recent years who have highly specialised...
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No change at FCO
Readers may have gained a false impression from the article 鈥淔oreign LSE scholars 鈥榮topped from briefing government on Brexit鈥欌 (7 October). It reported claims that the Foreign and Commonwealth...
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School ties
The headline for the article on universities sponsoring schools overstates the difference between the vice-chancellors from the University of Oxford and Nottingham Trent University (鈥淥xford鈥檚 vice-...
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Learning process
The issue of whether attendance at lectures should be compulsory cannot be an either/or argument (鈥淪hould student attendance in classes be compulsory?鈥, News, 20 October). Some professional bodies...