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University of SydneyRosina McAlpine-MladenovicAfter more than 20 years in the job, Rosina McAlpine-Mladenovic is still proud to proclaim that she loves teaching. The associate professor of accounting...
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Odds and quads
Gladys Aylward, the English missionary pictured with two of her adopted children (see image, right), became a household name when her heroic exploits escorting 100 orphans to safety through war-torn...
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Research intelligence - 'We all aspire to universal access'
It's just that it will take a long time to get there, journal publishers' spokesman tells Paul Jump
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From where I sit - Say sayonara to globalisation
I have just received the feedback on my first (unsuccessful) funding application to the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the main Japanese research funding body. My sorry experience...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
Imperial College LondonBypassing the burgersGastric bypass surgery makes people want to eat healthier food, according to a new study. Scientists at Imperial College London found that patients who...
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The week in higher education
• David Willetts, the universities minister, is reputed to have two brains - but will his higher education reforms result in fewer graduates having two kidneys? An academic has suggested that it is...
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Too much information
Cutting-edge researchers aren’t necessarily the best teachers, argues Alan Ryan
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11 August 2011
Children’s hour - The obsession with contact time is infantilising our students
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Should we laugh at student howlers?
Is the Times Higher Education ‘exam howlers’ competition a bit of harmless fun, or unfair and offensive? Katie Alcock believes the joke is on teachers as well as their students and no one is any the...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Leader: Hours and hours of reckoning
In higher education, it's not how much time you spend with students, but what you do with it that should count
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We can show that teacher training works
I found the article by Craig Mahoney, chief executive of the Higher Education Academy, about the value of training for university teachers quite extraordinary ("Knowledge is not enough...", 14 July)....
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True cost of visa changes
Terry Butland's warning about the damage being done to overseas recruitment by new visa rules comes as no surprise to anyone operating within the international education sector ("Middlesex braces for...
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Angels with dirty hands
Thank you for publishing Roger Watson's article on why we need nurses to be educated to degree level in the UK ("We need the IV leaguers", 28 July).As Watson makes clear, there is absolutely no...