Laurie Taylor – 5 July 2018
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Grade inflation or improved teaching?
The articles “Grades anatomy” and “Bubbles and bombast” suggest that grade inflation is a cause for concern. But over the past few years, universities have invested heavily in technology such as...
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Nursing know-how
We would like to respectfully disagree with comments made by Ann Bradshaw in “To degree or not to degree: that is NOT the question for UK nursing”. Earlier this year, the Nursing and Midwifery...
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Phantom deficit
While negotiations over the future of the Universities Superannuation Scheme continue, our research shows that the USS is more likely to be in surplus than in deficit. As pointed out by the Pensions...
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Appointments – 5 July 2018
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Does research conflict with teaching? It depends what you are researching
Social scientists’ inexplicable failure to conduct research on their own campuses is holding back quality in undergraduate education, says Richard Arum
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When erudition is not enough, activism is a must
When the alt-right made highly dubious claims about historical Irish slavery, Natalie Zacek realised that a rebuttal from an expert would make no difference
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Last Resort: the Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts, by Eric A. Posner
It’s time to make honest women out of the bodies that rescued the banks, argues Sir Howard Davies
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Books interview: Nadine Akkerman
The author of Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain on unreliable narrators and spymistresses
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Germany’s two-tier HE system is not all that it seems
Some commentators have urged the UK to replicate German universities of applied science. It’s not that simple, says Neil Shirtcliffe
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Without investment, student mental health will only get worse
UK students may be less likely to commit suicide than the general population, but rates are rising. A properly informed and funded response is vital, says Sarah Niblock
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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library, by Edward Wilson-Lee
Book of the week: An erudite biography of Christopher Columbus’ illegitimate son impresses Alexander Samson
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What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics, by Adam Becker
This defence of quantum physics replaces one problem with another, writes Cait MacPhee