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MoocsAnd NovoEd makes threeA third massive open online course platform developed by academics from Stanford University has been launched. Following in the footsteps of Coursera and Udacity, NovoEd,...
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The week in higher education
Lecturers often moan that student radicals have disappeared, but a few could be found at Maggie’s Good Riddance Party, a protest organised by Dominic Francis, a student at Ruskin College in Oxford,...
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Leader - Core values and the cradle of liberty
Among the factors that make students (and others) happy is community, hard as it may be to measure
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Talking points
Informal group admits reform requires more work than previously thought. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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'Bonkers': so is there something crazy about the English funding system?
The government’s “very radical” policy to slash direct public funding for teaching in English higher education is seen by the rest of the world as “completely bonkers”, according to the head of...
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V-c finds little intellectual merit in ‘knowledge for knowledge’s sake’
Robert Gordon v-c critiques traditional rationale for scholarly activity. David Matthews writes
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Boston students promote healing after the bombings
Boston, one of the global capitals of higher education, was thrown into chaos last week after bombers targeted the city’s marathon, sparking a manhunt that ended in further violence. Our US...
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Hefce wants contract talks as old powers are drained under new regime
Funding council plans new contract as legislation is ‘pushed to the limit’. John Morgan reports
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With cash on the line, Athena SWANs take wing
Applications for the Athena SWAN Charter for Women in Science gender equality award have soared since it was linked to research funding by the Department of Health.Sixty-eight higher education...
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Welsh: rare hits in Oxbridge, MP claims
Wales must encourage more applications to the elite institutions, says MP. David Matthews writes
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Laurie Taylor
1-2-3. It’s so elementaryOur intrepid reporter Keith Ponting (30) tells us that David Willetts may be one of the first students to adopt the new mathematics curriculum devised by his ministerial...
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Letters
Anti-austerity? Come join the resistanceWe are a group of people working in higher education who are increasingly alarmed by the government’s austerity programme and are increasingly determined to...
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1-2-3. It's so elementary
‘Is this right, Mr Gove?’Our intrepid reporter Keith Ponting (30) tells us that David Willetts may be one of the first students to adopt the new mathematics curriculum devised by his ministerial...