Laurie Taylor – 30 June 2016
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The ABC of Brazil’s Federal University of ABC
By limiting its scope and eschewing academic departments, a campus in Latin America has left room for tradition and transformation, says Klaus Capelle
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The TEF: trading standards whose time has come
Students are dangerously unclear on the value of their high-ticket education, says David Palfreyman. We urgently need ‘contracts to educate’
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Channelling Brexit anger
Most academics are not naturally angry people. We live in a world where statements are made only after careful hypothesis testing, where data are analysed meticulously, where conclusions report what...
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Things past
Professor Barbara Taylor recalls that the late Raphael Samuel was “impatient with the way history was taught at Oxford, where the syllabus included little about working people” (“Death of radical...
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Pitch perfect
David Toop surely could try harder in struggling to think about fiction about music or musicians that doesn’t ring false (“Books interview: David Toop”, Books, 23 June). There is a whole tradition of...
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Young researchers 'strive for impact'
Academics split over importance of research impact
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EU Referendum: Digesting a shock to the system
Post-Brexit years will be full of uncertainty that will take its toll on the sector even if worst-case scenarios don’t come to pass
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Timothy Garton Ash: 'robust challenge' a cornerstone of free speech
Author makes the case for universities to be open to eccentrics and those whose views we abhor
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Affordable student accommodation 'needs university engagement'
Too often universities are not speaking early enough with private accommodation providers on what types of provision are needed, a conference hears
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Annette Cashmore, 1958-2016
A leading authority on genetics and genetics education has died
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Academics consider how to give ‘illegalised’ refugees a voice
UCL event considers the responses of anthropologists and artists to the refugee crisis