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Campus round-up
University of St AndrewsNow you see him...An undergraduate student has brought invisibility cloaks one step closer to reality by creating an "invisibility sphere" that is able to slow down light....
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The week in higher education
• As the dust settled after the UK riots, higher education did not escape unscathed. Among those caught up in the unrest was University of Exeter student Laura Johnson, who has been charged with five...
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18 August 2011
Distortions of reality - It’s time to shatter the A-level illusions
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The answers aren't online
It takes more than 140 characters to raise a mob, says Kevin Fong
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Leader: Why do we steal their starshine?
In our confusion about what we want out of students, we too easily denigrate their genuine accomplishments
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Libraries reject 'raw deal' on e-journals
Cut cost of accessing research catalogues or lose RLUK business, publishers told. Paul Jump reports
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Never mind the contact width, feel the quality (1 of 3)
I read with interest Paul Ramsden's views on attempts to measure the quality of university provision by contact hours and class sizes ("When I grow up, I want to be spoon-fed", 11 August). This...
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Never mind the contact width, feel the quality (2 of 3)
Paul Ramsden ("When I grow up, I want to be spoon-fed") raises a number of questions, some of which are addressed by Ann Mroz ("Hours and hours of reckoning", Leader, 11 August). However, two things...
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Never mind the contact width, feel the quality (3 of 3)
I couldn't agree more with Ann Mroz: it's not about how much time you spend with students, but what you do with it that counts.However, the bean counters are in the field already, so might I suggest...
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No degrees in compassion
I read with increasing concern Ruth Davies' letter ("Angels with dirty hands", 11 August).Let me register my interest. I trained and practised as a state registered nurse from 1968 to 1974, working...
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A simple reminder
Your article "We can't afford to be too choosy" (11 August) illustrates how easy it is to build a sensational story out of a private email.It might be useful, though, to set the record straight. Yes...
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This is no accident
Ann Mroz's analysis of the effects of recent government policies (AAB and core-margin places) is correct: they will lead to the cementing of the new English Ivy League's exclusivity, "setting back...
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Pedagogic formula
Alan Ryan is a wise man, but his teaching formula has the wrong pig by the tail ("Too much information", 11 August). Try this: Teaching = Research minus Scholarship. If lectures and small-group...