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“Where are all the dead people? The Black Death killed millions, so where are they all buried? I’ll find them! With maths!” This tweet, sent by University of Sheffield PhD candidate Alison Atkin (@...
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Catapult targeting needs greater accuracy
‘Big community’ not reached by prestigious programme, study finds. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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The week in higher education
University Challenge quizmaster Jeremy Paxman has entered the perennial “dumbing down” debate by claiming that today’s students are cleverer than their predecessors. Mr Paxman, who has hosted the BBC...
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Letters
A golden anniversary that does not glisterWe should give two cheers, not three, for the 50th anniversary of the Robbins report (“Here’s to class act that challenged tyranny of class in admissions”,...
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Employers raise the Ucas hurdle higher
Graduate recruiters doubt comparability of degree results. David Matthews reports
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End of chapter as Bodley's head goes stateside
Sarah Thomas leaves Oxford’s Bodleian Library to take up vice-president post at Harvard Library
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Hotly contested potato
Prepare for some Darwin-on-Mendel action: it’s the ‘exam howlers’ 2013. Jack Grove writes
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Campus round-up
Animated reactionA music video created by an academic has won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Animation. The stop-motion film for the band Fossil Collective’s single Let it Go was made by...
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News in brief
AustraliaMinister has no time for impactThe Australian education minister has said that measuring research impact is not necessarily a priority or a worthwhile endeavour. Kim Carr, who recently...
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Surrey proposed 2:1 target to assess staff
Plans were abandoned only after ‘extensive negotiations’ with union. Jack Grove reports
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Leader - Brand in glove
In India, the US, the UK and beyond, branding is an inescapable part of higher education, for good or ill
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Avril Goodwin, Joshua Gross, Dragana Obradovic, Brandy Schillace and Joanna Williams...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Elizabeth’s Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen’s Court, by Anna Whitelock
Peter Gwyn seeks more interpretation in a biography of the Virgin Queen and her male favourites and Ladies of the Bedchamber
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The ‘I’ of Leadership: Strategies for Seeing, Being and Doing, by Nigel Nicholson
Jean Hartley on the qualities and insights necessary in leaders
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Postgraduate funding: Willetts is banking on it
Minister wants career development loan schemes to fill postgrad gap. Elizabeth Gibney reports