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News in brief - 12 December 2013
AustraliaOppositional positionCuts of A$2.3 billion (£1.3 billion) to Australian universities planned by Labor when in government are unlikely to go through after the party, now in opposition,...
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Art and science: ‘two cultures’ with shared values
Forcing students to choose sides leaves them, and society, poorer, says Christopher Bigsby
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Split-brain scholarship
Most of us at one time or another must have encountered students who say something like, “I haven’t done any of the reading, I bet it is rubbish anyway: in my opinion…”, and then proceed to spout...
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I’ll drink to that - (almost) foolproof party spiel for scientists
Russell Foster on how to reply to the question ‘And what do you do?’ at Christmas cocktail parties
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12 December 2013
All in the mind? - Steven Rose questions ‘neuroeducation’ hype
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Eeny, meeny, miny…
My very good friend Steve Smith is reported as saying that only three people understand the resource accounting and budgeting charge and two of them are mad (“That sinkhole feeling”, Leader, 28 ...
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Dance off, priced out
I read “Morris miners” with concern (Campus round-up, 28 November). There may be a number of reasons why morris dancing is considered unfashionable and perhaps is dying out. Practices and...
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Massaging the feedback
I note that a number of articles and opinion pieces in THE in recent months have dealt with the value (or lack thereof) of student feedback/evaluation questionnaires.Many years ago, I learned how...
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Credit rating agencies
Sir David Watson’s report for the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education is right: there is much work to be done if credit transfer is to become widely used to support lifelong learning in the UK...
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Cops off campus
We the undersigned unreservedly condemn the escalating use of police violence against peaceful protest at the University of London (News, 6 December).On 4 December, students were violently evicted...
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Put it to the test case
I can quite understand the strength of feeling expressed in Manfredi La Manna’s letter about Universities UK’s guidance on external speakers in higher education institutions (“Beyond belief”, 5 ...
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Evidential tools to narrow gender gap
No conclusions can be drawn from the WomenCount: Leaders in Higher Education report regarding the link (or otherwise) between the number of female governors on university boards and the appointment...
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God bless us, every one
There was no need to go all the way to Lapland if you wanted to meet Father Christmas this week. All you had to do was walk into the atrium of our Michael Gove College on Tuesday morning this week...
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The week in higher education - 12 December 2013
Boat Race protester Trenton Oldfield has won his fight to stay in the UK after a judge overturned his deportation order, The Independent reported on 10 December. The 37-year-old Australian, who...