Why I had to quit the research excellence framework panel
With no time for proper peer review and with grade inflation inevitable, one academic felt compelled to resign
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V-cs have brought the teaching excellence framework on themselves
It is wrong for universities to ignore learning, says Anthony聽Seldon
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鈥業deas are ghostly things, and scholarly writing is a kind of magic鈥
As a manuscript haunts her, Shahidha Bari muses on Apple and the Bard
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Teaching still far from parity
Richard Black is right to highlight the need for debate around the Green Paper (鈥淗igher education Green Paper: have universities really neglected teaching?鈥, 9聽November), but I聽am not sure that he is...
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Online isolation
You report that researchers from Walden University and the University of Phoenix find that 鈥減ersons with disabilities experience marginalisation in education on a regular basis鈥 (鈥淪tudents with...
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Adaptive thinking
Dame Julia King鈥檚 illustration of restructuring student learning around 鈥渦niversal challenges鈥 such as climate change (鈥淐limate change will take all our expertise鈥, Opinion, 29聽October) reveals both...
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Log on, Africa
Re your feature on private higher education in Africa (鈥淎 鈥榯eaching shop鈥 on every corner鈥, 22聽October). As a veteran educationalist in Africa, I聽fully agree with the statement by Adebayo Olukoshi...
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Sensing bias
We hear that David Cameron has asked Ucas to make university applications 鈥渘ame-blind鈥 to avoid bias against black students (鈥淥n improving diversity, the sector has a clear choice: lead or be led鈥,...
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Comradely chic
Lara Cook, in her laudatory review of Sheila Fitzpatrick鈥檚 On聽Stalin鈥檚 Team: The Years of聽Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics (Books, 29 October), states that Stalin鈥檚 team 鈥渆ven into the 1930s,...
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Keeping calm and lobbying on
With less panic than it showed prior to 2010鈥檚 flat-cash result, science hopes for another round of it-could-have-been-worse
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World University Rankings 2015-2016 by subject: physical sciences results
Asia doubles representation while European countries face varied performance