Safety is more important than privacy
It’s time to use technology to detect potential threats and worry less about outdated ideas of privacy, says Ron Iphofen
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Hefce quality plans ‘risk greater government control’
Contract terms bring criticism of funding council, but it defends ‘normal commercial practice’
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Germany: an alternative route to excellence
There’s a tension between Germany’s desire to be in the global elite of higher education while remaining egalitarian. John Morgan reports
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Ron Heisler Collection: a radical repository
Senate House Library makes public a sample of a remarkable archive of radical politics
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Grant winners – 28 April 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Laurie Taylor – 28 April 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Excellent healthcare has clinical research pulsing in its veins
The junior doctor contract not only deters the lab work that leads to breakthroughs, it threatens quality of care, argues Amitava Banerjee
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Spoc: to boldly go where no course has gone before
To aid non-traditional students, David Burns built a ‘Spoc’, a digital course where an academic is always on call
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Ucas tariff is on point
Tim Gill, the research officer at Cambridge Assessment who says that the Ucas tariff system overvalues both the International Baccalaureate and vocational BTECs, misunderstands the Ucas tariff (“IB...
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Hefce’s agents
In her letter on the Higher Education Funding Council for England making higher education policy by blog, Gill Evans quotes Susan Lapworth as saying that, for Hefce, “it’s not particularly helpful to...