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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Students see teaching’s value: shame managers don’t
Myshele Goldberg on a numbers-based approach that doesn’t add up
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Randomness in Evolution, by John Tyler Bonner
Tiffany Taylor weighs the evidence of the importance of random changes in species development
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Liberal arts, British style
Aaron Rosen on how the UK is improving on a US staple
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News in brief - 18 July 2013
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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News in brief - 18 July 2013
Saudi Arabian scholarship programmeAmerica, here they comeHuge investment by the government of Saudi Arabia in overseas scholarships brought a flood of young Saudis to the US, an analysis suggests....
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Unexpected debt yield
Parents and students in line for rude awakening
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Dido Davies, 1953-2013
An acclaimed academic biographer who went on to write a series of guides to sexual technique has died
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Open access: brought to book at last?
A library-focused effort aims to take monographs off the analogue shelf
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India’s higher education sector focuses on standards
The subcontinent plans to create capacity for an extra 10 million students in five years, with particular emphasis on quality of education. But how?
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Branded to death
What if marketing-speak is not glib nonsense, but a poison at the heart of the university?
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Lettori dealt a blow by Brescia court
The situation of the lettori - the British and other foreign lecturers working in Italian universities - has been dealt a blow by a new court ruling.
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Willetts announces funding for ‘great technologies’
David Willetts has announced £85 million in funding to provide equipment in three of the “eight great technologies” being targeted to drive growth.