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Campus round-up
Imperial College LondonBypassing the burgersGastric bypass surgery makes people want to eat healthier food, according to a new study. Scientists at Imperial College London found that patients who...
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The week in higher education
• David Willetts, the universities minister, is reputed to have two brains - but will his higher education reforms result in fewer graduates having two kidneys? An academic has suggested that it is...
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Too much information
Cutting-edge researchers aren’t necessarily the best teachers, argues Alan Ryan
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11 August 2011
Children’s hour - The obsession with contact time is infantilising our students
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Should we laugh at student howlers?
Is the Times Higher Education ‘exam howlers’ competition a bit of harmless fun, or unfair and offensive? Katie Alcock believes the joke is on teachers as well as their students and no one is any the...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Leader: Hours and hours of reckoning
In higher education, it's not how much time you spend with students, but what you do with it that should count
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We can show that teacher training works
I found the article by Craig Mahoney, chief executive of the Higher Education Academy, about the value of training for university teachers quite extraordinary ("Knowledge is not enough...", 14 July)....
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True cost of visa changes
Terry Butland's warning about the damage being done to overseas recruitment by new visa rules comes as no surprise to anyone operating within the international education sector ("Middlesex braces for...
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Angels with dirty hands
Thank you for publishing Roger Watson's article on why we need nurses to be educated to degree level in the UK ("We need the IV leaguers", 28 July).As Watson makes clear, there is absolutely no...
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Willetts, you were warned
The University and College Union and student leaders have warned from the outset that tripling tuition fees would deter people, especially those from poorer backgrounds, from applying to university...
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The spite stuff
Richard J. Evans is right that reviewers have an obligation to be honest ("Critical path: how did a book reviewer and an author end up in court?", 4 August).As a reviews editor for Archives, the...
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Zero intolerance
Could we please remind ourselves to correct at every opportunity the developing habit of referring to the 20th century as the 1900s?Of course, the same problem affects other centuries. This evening...
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God in the pension plan
Where is this surge of "post-secularist" commentary coming from ("Spirit levels", 28 July)? It is unlikely to be the British populace, so many of whom consider gods redundant and identify themselves...