Teaching intelligence: putting Wikipedia at the heart of a class
Like it or not, Wikipedia is used by students around the world – so academics should teach them how to use it, writes Caroline Ball
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Martin Kilson, 1931-2019
Tributes paid to Harvard’s first tenured black professor
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Interview with Rachel Griffith
The new president of the Royal Economic Society on the need for economists to be more engaging and why being a woman is an advantage in the field
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Universities ‘contribute little to generic skill development’
Schools take credit for majority of literacy and numeracy development
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The heat is on: female students perform better in warm exam rooms
Experiment that saw students take tests in temperatures ranging from 16ºC to 33ºC finds men appear to score highest in the cold
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The week in higher education – 23 May 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Appointments – 23 May 2019
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The academy I dreamed of for 20 years no longer exists, and I am waking up
Ellen Kirkpatrick has yearned for an academic career for many years. But 18 months after finally earning her doctorate, she is no longer sure she wants to remain in a sector defined by precarity,...
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Does university assessment still pass muster?
Most universities still rely on exams and assessed essays to grade their students. But as the fourth industrial revolution, employability and student satisfaction all rise up the agenda, many experts...
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UK universities' EU-born staff do not live in a Brexit-proof bubble
Colleagues’ failure to fully grasp the more hostile lived reality for EU nationals post-referendum is furthering alienation, says Jawiria Naseem
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USS controversy ‘raises likelihood of more pension strikes’
UK pension fund rocked by regulator’s concerns, whistleblower’s claims and potential departure of Cambridge college
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Priyamvada Gopal: on the front line of Britain’s imperial past
The literature expert on online abuse, decolonising the curriculum and Cambridge’s role in the slave trade
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First the worst? Lead authors ‘should take misconduct blame’
Holding ‘probably innocent’ co-authors responsible for research wrongdoing cannot be justified, say academics