Correlation limitations
The fact that at the institutional level, total quality-related (QR) cash from the Higher Education Funding Council for England and total research council funding are highly correlated is neither new...
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Peer performance
Further to the article by Alan Ryan (“The best of the lot”, Opinion, 28 March): isn’t he describing the House of Lords as was? A random selection of the good, the bad and the indifferent - with peers...
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Middle class? Moi?
Source: AlamyClass acts: a little taste of the finer thingsNew research findings from Dr Nicola Ingram of the University of Bath show that some middle-class students at the post-1992 University of...
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Campus round-up - 18 April 2013
Source: ReutersPeak performance in aid of breath of lifeScientists at a UK university are working in one of the harshest environments on Earth to further vital research into the effects of low oxygen...
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V-c applies military lessons in leadership
The Army’s teamwork ethos shaped the management style of the University of Essex’s Anthony Forster
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Odds and quads - 18 April 2013
These items come from the archive of the Nobel prizewinning novelist J. M. Coetzee, which was acquired by the Harry Ransom Center, the humanities research library and museum at the University of...
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UCL Institute of Making’s cabinet of curiosities
Research club offers hands-on access to fascinating materials from aerogel to baby teeth
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Old Bailey Online: 10 years of making crime pay for scholars
Vast digital archive of court records 1674-1913 is ‘dead people’s big data’
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A stage for the battle-scarred to tell their tales
Theatre director uses fellowship to give dramatic shape to the stories of ex-combatants
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Questions over credibility of border credibility interviews
Overseas students rejected on ‘arbitrary’ grounds, UKCISA report suggests
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THE Scholarly Web - 18 April 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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How was it? The UK’s first Coursera Moocs assessed
Instructors and students discuss their experiences of the University of Edinburgh’s debut courses on Coursera
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Say 'no' to company policy
Over the past six months since starting as a visiting professor in the international study programme at the Corvinus University of Budapest, I have had the opportunity to meet people who are...
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QAA finds 'serious flaws' in Anglia Ruskin's validation
University says problems at partner colleges affect just 3% of students
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Culture: Eugène Boudin retrospective
A retrospective of the neglected artist to whom Claude Monet ‘owed everything’ is long overdue, writes Christoph Bode