Thinking not required
Hurrah for Rowan Williams (“No fooling about impact”, Opinion, 17 April). The one unifying factor of every degree should be critical analysis, training to think, bringing enlightenment to the masses...
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Academic Hunger Games
With hindsight, perhaps the legacy of the research excellence framework on all researchers has been distilled in the tribunal judgement “responsibility for allowing their own vanity and self-interest...
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No spying
One never wants to spoil a good story but it is important to correct some of the facts in “Exposé brought Warwick success” (News, 10 April).It is not true that the university employed a detective to...
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Gender and jobs
Mary Curnock Cook is right to point out the issue of gender imbalance in certain subject areas (“Women in STEM ‘sole focus’ of gender imbalance debate”, News, 24 April) where women make up the...
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Deterring plagiarism
Turnitin is a great tool to help identify plagiarism by students. In fact, examination of originality reports is my first action when marking student work in order to eliminate those few students who...
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Is it time to rethink GTA positions?
Graduate teaching assistantships should be scrapped, not only because of the wide discrepancies in pay and working conditions (“Labour of love: huge variation in GTA pay”, News, 24 April) but also...
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Open labs may lead to open minds
A concordat aimed at ending secrecy in animal testing will allow for debate that should benefit researchers and subjects
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The week in higher education - 1 May 2014
Eighteen men who were paid less than their female colleagues have won an equal pay claim against the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, the BBC News website reported on 23 April. The caretakers...
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Hull gives Scarborough campus the cold shoulder
University set to close seaside town’s ‘unsustainable’ degree programmes
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Huge rise in graduate start-ups
The number of graduate start-up companies has increased by 68% since 2008-09, data released by HESA show
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Campus close-up: Portsmouth University
Portsmouth’s v-c wants to bolster postgraduate provision and to apply research strengths to stretch students
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Proposed data changes ‘threaten’ EU research
The European University Association warns restrictions could cause continent’s scientists to fall behind global rivals
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Student engagement, the latest buzzword
Graham Gibbs asks what the term really means, and whether it is likely to help improve learning
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Glasgow Caledonian seeks to fill capital position
University is scouting for a new dean to be academic lead at its London campus. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments