The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution, by Ian Tattersall
Simon Underdown on our origin story’s twists, turns and red herrings
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What are you reading? – 30 July 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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What purpose do campus art collections serve?
Are such treasures art for art’s sake, v-cs’ follies or vital assets that further institutional missions?
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Is ‘risk-based’ quality assurance too risky?
The big game-changer ahead may not be plans to ‘root out bad teaching’ via a TEF, but a shift to light-touch quality assessment
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How the 99 per cent learn: America’s overlooked successes
It’s a pity the efforts of myriad institutions striving daily to help students of diverse backgrounds are eclipsed by Ivy League tales, says Alan Ruby
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OBR should examine student loans system, says panel
Independent Commission on Fees concerned by high write-off rate and impact on ‘squeezed middle’
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I’m in remission, and seeing colleagues with new eyes
John Gilbey fretted over telling those he worked with of his cancer – needlessly, for they were all caring and supportive
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Kant is my co-driver: philosophy and driverless cars
Should autonomous vehicles have ethics programmed in? asks Alan Ryan
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Pharmacy course ‘cut entry standard’ to recruit students
Pressure from senior management at Uclan to increase student numbers led to pharmacy school over-recruiting, General Pharmaceutical Council finds
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The golden age of TV? It just might be 2015
In today’s multichannel landscape, says Fred Inglis, there are more bright, wondering eyes on the world than Babestations
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What price trust? The cost of breaking student loan promises
Changing current students’ debt repayment terms would damage public faith in government, say John Thompson and Bahram Bekhradnia
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The REF: why did it cost so much?
The sums spent on the exercise were exorbitant and the money could be better spent, argues Derek Sayer