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  1. Peter Medway, 1941-2015

    A researcher who greatly enhanced our understanding of the importance of writing skills within secondary English teaching has died

    #Obituary
    #People
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  2. Q&A with Christine Chinkin

    We speak to the inaugural director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics

    #HE and Me
    #People
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  3. Make mine a double first

    A whistleblower’s account of how an institution manipulated graduate employment statistics made for sobering reading, but it also drove the Twitterati to drink-related puns

    #Opinion
    #THE Scholarly Web
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  4. Grant winners – 26 March 2015

    National Institute for Health ResearchEfficacy and Mechanism Evaluation programmeAward winner: Andrea Grace RockallInstitution: Imperial College LondonValue: £578,090Development and evaluation of...

    #Grant winners
    #Research intelligence

  5. News in brief – 26 March 2015

    Source: Chinese University of Hong KongRoyal SocietyNobelist wins presidential ballotNobel laureate Sir Venkatraman (Venki) Ramakrishnan has been named president elect of the Royal Society, after a...

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  7. Obsolete differences

    Aristotle first divided the arts from the sciences and, on balance, I think he got it right (“Two tribes? Look for similarities instead of spotting differences”, Opinion, 19 March). Works of art are...

    #Letters

  8. The right answer for MCQs

    Contrary to the view expressed by Hugh Fletcher, the practice of penalising wrong answers in multiple-choice tests is normatively inferior to simply counting the number of right answers (“Exams with...

    #Letters

  9. Self-citation not needed

    I am a postdoctoral researcher. Over the past few years, I have taken the inevitable step of peer-reviewing papers for a number of journals in my field of research. I read the article “Peer reviewing...

    #Letters

  10. Good mental health

    The stock response to rising levels of demand for psychological and emotional support in universities is that destigmatising mental ill-health leads to more people disclosing problems (“Oxford...

    #Letters

  11. Open at what cost?

    The letter “Open to the challenges” (19 March) from Tim Blackman, the acting vice-chancellor of the Open University, wrongly says that our letter “Light and shade in OU student numbers” (12 March)...

    #Letters

  12. Not everyone’s on board

    It has been just over five years since Sir David Melville’s report on London Metropolitan University criticised an earlier board of governors (and senior executives) for failing to hold a previous...

    #Letters

  13. God in the quad

    Source: Getty‘Dawkins’: a recent pictureA Poppleton don who is well known for his militant atheism has spoken warmly of the Virgin Mary.In an interview with The Poppletonian, Mr Ted Odgers of our...

    #Columnists
    #Laurie
    #Laurie Taylor
    #Opinion

  14. The week in higher education – 26 March 2015

    The discovery of Richard III’s skeleton by University of Leicester archaeologists has generated an estimated £50 million for the city since September 2012, The Times reported on 24 March. But some...

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    #The week in HE

  15. Penalties and prize money

    George Osborne’s ambitions for northern research powerhouses may be undermined by post-REF funding allocations

    #Leader
    #Opinion