Teaching Machines: Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology, by Bill Ferster
The use of gadgets to help students is only as effective as the pedagogical methods employed, finds Steve Wheeler
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Who’s Afraid of Academic Freedom?, edited by Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan R. Cole
Miriam E. David urges scholars to engage with essays contributing to wider political debates
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Back to the Garden: Nature and the Mediterranean World from Prehistory to the Present, by James H. S. McGregor
Laurence Coupe on an ambitious and challenging exploration of the ecology of the past
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Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity, by Clara Tuite
Jane Stabler on a fascinating account of the aristocrat-poet’s fame
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Mobile students earn more, study finds
Those who spend part of their degree overseas tend to earn more in their first job and are less likely to be unemployed six months after graduating
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When lecturers’ professional and private lives collide
For teachers, the border between the two is porous, says Shahidha Bari
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Potential Architecture: Ambika P3, London
Bold new works exemplify the ethos of a university’s unique underground experimental exhibition space
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Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy, by Frank Close
A biography of a secretive scientist comes with a cast worthy of a le Carré novel, says Jon Turney
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Katerina Deligiorgi, Helen Fulton, Sir John Holman, Karen McAulay and Ruth Mieschbuehler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Head of KAUST rejects calls to condemn restrictions on freedom of speech in Saudi
Jean-Lou Chameau says universities must reflect the societies within which they exist
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What will the end of final-salary pensions mean for academics?
As a consultation launches, employees consider the impact of the USS reforms
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Is academic judgement now open to legal challenge?
A claim of academic immunity is not the trump card it was, say David Lawson and Leon Glenister
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Campus close-up: New Model in Technology and Engineering
Mooted Hereford university benefits from serious backing
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Is employability data being manipulated?
The Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey is being abused, according to one former university employee
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Oxford students’ demand for counselling shoots up
FoI request shows large rise, which university puts down to more awareness