One in four students uses social media to contact university staff
More than a quarter of university students now use social media to contact their lecturers
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Proportion of top BTEC students doubles: Hefce report
Students taking BTEC vocational qualifications are more than twice as likely to score top marks as they were seven years earlier, says a new study.
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Video: student builds Large Hadron Collider...from Lego
University of Liverpool PhD student wants models to be manufactured by the company
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THE podcast: 26 February - 4 March 2015 issue review
Download the podcastChallenging access targets for selective universities, reform of the research funding formula and the review of the research councils being led by Sir Paul Nurse all feature in...
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Video: Election Hustings for Higher Education 2015
Watch the only pre-election debate on higher education, featuring key representatives from the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties
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When disaster strikes on campus…
How do universities cope in the aftermath of fires, earthquakes and killing sprees?
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Barroso sees lessons for European universities from his US vantage
Continent must learn to maximise research strengths, says former European Commission president turned ‘accidental academic’
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Lower scores for Asian staff on Rate My Professors website
Postgrad’s study questions reliability of results on staff evaluation website as US students seek ‘easiest A’
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Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure, by Cédric Villani
The lows and highs of a ‘rock star’ scholar cracking an impossible problem enthral Noel-Ann Bradshaw
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Owning up to the bias in all of us
We need an honest conversation about unconscious prejudices and how they can hold back individuals and their work
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Ethics of journal’s surplus
As debates rage on how to spend the £1.2 million surplus of The Sociological Review (“Journal board in dark over £1m surplus”, 19 February), it is disappointing that there is no comment on how this...
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Mental health starts early
Thank you for raising the pressing issue of student mental well-being (“Diversity driving demand for mental healthcare”, News, 19 February). Every university has a pastoral duty of care for its...
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Sad retreat from vital area
I am an academic at the University of Manchester who also sits on the senate, which has twice discussed the closure of the Middle Eastern studies undergraduate programmes. I did not participate in...
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No tuition fees on principle
Students at the University of the West of Scotland have consistently rejected the idea of tuition fees mentioned by Craig Mahoney, principal and vice-chancellor of UWS (“Talk of fees is tricky in...
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Managers and Moocs at root of OU’s woes
The University and College Union branch at the Open University is extremely concerned about the deficit and falling student numbers reported in Times Higher Education (“OU’s numbers dive 28% as pool...