QAA reveals guidelines to counter ‘dumbing-down’ fears
Watchdog outlines national proposals for external examiners, student-tutor contact and English-language proficiency. Rebecca Attwood reports
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The Government’s proposals to ‘simplify and strengthen’ equality and anti-discrimination law - an update
In July 2008, we reported the Government’s proposals to consolidate the numerous pieces of discrimination legislation into one Act and to introduce further responsibilities in a bid to outlaw all...
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Gloria Monday: Overworked? It’s our own fault
Having been forced into the forefront of administration, Gloria Monday realises that, on the whole, the overload is self-inflicted
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UCU congress to hear Israeli boycott arguments
Committee ignores legal advice and adds motions to agenda. Melanie Newman reports
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Pay rise poses dilemma for Bolton staff
Workers to vote on whether to take final 2.5 per cent of last year’s national pay award as v-c warns that increase will cause job losses. Melanie Newman reports
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FoI request opens can of worms over London Met’s dropout rate
Hefce figures for non-completions 13 times higher than university data. Melanie Newman reports
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Where in the world ..
Britain's university libraries are home to a historically rich and frequently surprising treasure trove of artefacts from every corner of the globe. Matthew Reisz conducts curiosity-driven research
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The personal touch
The intimate pedagogical relationship between students and academics sets UK universities apart from the rest of the world. But in an age of mass education and security concerns, the British way of...
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Veil: Mirror of Identity
Julia Droeber finds thinly veiled orientalism in an analysis of Muslim values and Western liberalism
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Felt
Key "felt" into the search engine of an online bookseller and a plethora of "how to" and craft books will pop up. Instruction manuals have their place but the surfeit of knick-knack projects, raw...
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The Canon: The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 By Eamon Duffy
It used to be an open secret that most historians of Christianity had axes to grind - partisans fighting their confessional corners, ecumenists trying to spread peace and love, non-believers out to...
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Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account
A proselytising book assumes much about world poverty but answers little, writes Radha D'Souza
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The Unfinished Game
For (Luck) your science finds no measuring rods," wrote Dante Alighieri in the Inferno (in Dorothy L. Sayers' translation). For most of the history of humanity, few would have disagreed. Luck, or...
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Cruelty: Human Evil and the Human Brain
A review of a book on human cruelty is a daunting and anxiety-provoking task. Listening to news broadcasts on any given day, one is confronted with examples of the myriad ways in which humans can...
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Book of the week: Mothers and Others
Camilla Power finds emotional modernity is the legacy of co-operative breeding