OECD may fill ‘missing link’ in world rankings
Learning outcomes project aims to get to grips with international teaching comparisons. John Morgan reports
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Academy must make the case for higher fees
Sector should put ‘its neck on the line’ and take the question on, former government adviser argues. Melanie Newman reports
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Blair ‘snaffles’ low-rate loans in face of Treasury apathy
Former PM opted for ‘interest-free’ student loans to curry favour with the electorate, Charles Clarke testifies. Rebecca Attwood reports
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UEA broke FoI law
Researchers were wrong to withhold data sought by climate-change sceptics, says information commissioner. Zoë Corbyn writes
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How not to write a PhD thesis
In this guide, Tara Brabazon gives her top 10 tips for doctoral failure
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Participation would fall if fees rise without extra aid
First submissions to review of fees and finance describe how costs affect applications. Melanie Newman reports
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My Eureka Moment: 'Small places matter more than big ones'
Ron Johnston's investigations into the impact of geography on democracy have revealed that people in the same class position tend to support different parties depending on where they live
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It's in the cards
When Bob Blaisdell was finally persuaded to use index cards for study, he became as obsessive about them as he was about the baseball cards of his youth
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We did it before...
As universities agonise over greatly reduced funding from the state, David Greenaway reminds them that they were once much more financially self-reliant and would do well to rekindle the old spirit
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Book of the week: Lake Views
Graham Farmelo delights in a top physicist's views on science, policy and faith
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Clever: Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People
Nurturing gifted employees will benefit workers and employers - it makes sense to David Orford
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Disturbances of the Mind
In this cleverly constructed book, several of the puzzles of present-day neurology are considered alongside accounts of the lives and times of those with whom they are eponymously associated....
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The Canon: The History of Britain. By John Milton
Not only do we not know what the future holds; often we have little idea what the past holds. For Francis Bacon: "Time is like a river, which has brought down to us things light and puffed up, while...
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Policing Stalin's Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953
Hidden victims of Stalinist suppression are revealed, finds Harold Shukman
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Stuff
Daniel Miller's Stuff brings together in one compact volume a deftly rewritten and engaging retrospective summary of 30 years of cultural anthropology carried out in the Caribbean, London, India and...