Employability agenda
In regards to Steve Sarson’s recent article on the “employability agenda” (“Students are sent to the rat race maze: syllabus is history”, Opinion, 21 March): let’s start by considering what...
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Academics ‘talk posh’ to protect their careers
Scholars downplay regional accents to avoid prejudice, Newcastle University study shows
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Turnitin is turning up fewer cases of plagiarism
Cases of serious cheating fall by 60 per cent, company says
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The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games by Jesper Juul
Steve Redhead takes a byte from a fascinating but flawed analysis
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US Mooc platforms’ openness questioned
Forum hears doubts about uncollaborative and ‘imperialist’ initiatives
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Teaching inside the moment
Dale Salwak on the sudden realisation that knowledge of his subject had become intuitive understanding and lecture notes could be put aside when teaching
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Fields medallists’ open-access track
Episciences Project offers new publishing formula
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Odds and quads - 4 April 2013
The Oracle by Reg Butler is one of five original works in the University of Hertfordshire’s art collection.The 1952 work was originally intended to grace the entrance hall of Hatfield Technical...
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Are universities as open as they should be?
Universities are required to be open to scrutiny because they are publicly funded. But how far should it go? When it comes to their internal business, David Matthews discovers that competition may be...
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Offer sandwiches for a taste of work
The UK must build work experience into higher education with the same vigour as it did in the 1950s, Quintin McKellar argues
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Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy
Ervand Abrahamian ponders how Muslim clerics seized and retained control of modern-day Persia
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An open book?
Universities are required to be open to scrutiny because they are publicly funded. But how far should it go? When it comes to their internal business, David Matthews discovers that competition may be...
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28 March - 3 April 2013 - The week in higher education
A Cardiff-born expatriate lecturer has won fame in East Asia after reaching the semi-finals of China’s Got Talent for his rendition of revolutionary songs dressed in a Mao-style uniform. Iain Inglis...
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A clear balance of interests
Institutions have a delicate line to tread in being open about their organisations versus the pressures of competition
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One inspection, multiple agencies
Several bodies could carry out university inspections simultaneously to cut the administrative burden