International students ‘gain less’ from internships
Paper finds that UK sandwich course students ‘outshine’ their overseas counterparts in the final year of university
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NUS ‘braced for attacks’ after Bouattia election
Vice-president Sorana Vieru says the NUS is ready for further criticism after Prevent critic Malia Bouattia was voted in as president
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Bard news: have we reached 'peak Shakespeare'?
Matthew Reisz considers why we are still talking obsessively about the playwright 400 years after he shuffled off this mortal coil
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Destabilising the teaching excellence framework
Rima Amin considers the challenges for students’ union officers in the light of the NUS vote to boycott the National Student Survey
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World insight: one size can't fit all for indigenous communities
David Lloyd finds that a journey into the Australian outback proves instructive
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IB and BTEC ‘overvalued’ in Ucas tariff, study finds
Cambridge Assessment researcher says points system should be redrawn to reflect students’ achievement at university
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Laurie Taylor – 21 April 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Dissing dons down the ages: a century of pejoratives
What insults have people used to disparage intellectuals over the past century?
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China in Africa: empire-builders or alliance-makers?
China’s motives, like the West’s, are mixed, but it clearly has a role to play in building capacity in African higher education
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Safety in numbers: higher education in Pakistan
Investing in the education of millions of young people can help defuse a security time bomb, argue Faisal Abbas and Abdur Rehman Cheema
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Getting creative with IFS report
Reading through the Institute of Fiscal Studies’ report on graduate earnings, it is as if the authors have taken their cue from Nicky Morgan’s “don’t bother studying the creative arts” mantra (“...
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Stop digging
It seems that the Higher Education Funding Council for England is now making higher education policy by blog. On 13 April, a policy adviser to the funding council put out her thoughts on Hefce’s bid...
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Quality assured
The tone of Susan Lapworth’s article about how the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s plans for quality assessment have been misunderstood is so patronising that it almost beggars belief...