Turbocharge teaching with a team of rivals
Courses led by interdisciplinary groups can energise teachers and students, says Robert Zaretsky
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Use and abuse of abuse
Following the news that an English lecturer from the University of Nottingham has apologised for describing a third-year student as an “idiot” and “semi-literate” on Facebook, our Deputy Head of...
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THE Scholarly Web - 20 February 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Q&A with Dame Wendy Hall
We speak to the professor of computer science and dean of the Faculty of Physical Science and Engineering at the University of Southampton
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News in brief - 20 February 2014
N8 Research PartnershipShare options pay dividendsA consortium of universities in the North of England has built a toolkit to help guide institutions looking to share equipment. The N8 Research...
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World in brief - 20 February 2014
United StatesHarvard mistake hits 11,000A US university accidentally overtaxed thousands of its employees for four years in a payroll error. Owing to a mistake in the way it reported its employees’...
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Grant winners - 20 February 2014
Leverhulme TrustInternational Network GrantsSocial sciencesAward winner: Mary BosworthInstitution: University of OxfordValue: £123,210The Leverhulme international network on external border...
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Hall: scholar and gentleman
When I was a tutor at Open University psychology summer schools in the late 1980s and early 1990s, my weeks on the University of Sussex campus often coincided with those of Stuart Hall, who taught on...
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The ethics of big data
Sir John Savill exposes the moral bankruptcy of those UK research funders who object to proposed European legislation on personal data (“Data privacy change could be a bitter pill”, News, 13 February...
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Online exertions
I enjoyed Dale Salwak’s thoughtful and thought-provoking article about his experience of teaching an online course (“From chalkface to interface”, Feature, 13 February). It’s worth noting, however,...
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Grant us clarity
The delayed annual grant letter was received by the Higher Education Funding Council for England on 10 February. Annex 3 (Conditions of Grant on Regulated Fees) seems to raise an important and...
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Gender equity: even sector’s best not good enough
Women-friendly policies insufficient at even Athena SWAN universities, finds THE Best University Workplace Survey
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Unanswerable questions
How can the US legal system confuse the singing of hymns by an elderly nun with the acts of a terrorist?
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The IoE-UCL marriage is not one of equals
It’s hard for specialist institutions to go it alone, but mergers may bring few benefits, says Miriam David
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Do PhD supervisors make the grade?
Poor theses often betray inexpert supervision, say external examiners David Alexander and Ian Davis