It's about time, but it's about feedback as well
Student surveys show that the sector must explain why UK degrees are good value, says Deian Hopkin How do we really know whether our students are satisfied? How do they judge value for money? Two...
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'What strikes me as objectionable about the RAE is the atmosphere of fear and trembling that surrounds it'
After writing in this column about the importance of taking the impact of childbirth and childcare into account when assessing research output for the forthcoming research assessment exercise, I was...
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Let's take the guesswork out of reading
A research project aims to compile a truly reliable journals ranking list. Linda Bennett explains Which journal articles should academic researchers and university students read? What articles do...
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Purple passages praise Durham
Old rockers never die, but they certainly do appear to mellow out. Jon Lord, the former Deep Purple keyboard player, has swapped the hell-raising world of trashed hotel rooms for the cerebral...
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Coastal sound waves
Continuing the musical themeE Hull University's Centre for Environmental Sciences now has a composer in residence. Craig Vear says he will use the coastline as his source of creativity when he takes...
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Yes... no ... yes it is new money
There was as much confusion as there was excitement over Gordon Brown's announcement this week of a £15 billion spend on medical research over the next ten years. In his conference speech, he was "...
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A course to take us into the future
The integrated sciences degree will stimulate students and meet employers' new interdisciplinary demands, says Jim Al-Khalili When deliveries of the bread for our morning toast are co-ordinated via...
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From burning books to exterminating races
It is time, says Alan Kramer, to revisit the role of cultural destruction in the first great conflict of 20th-century Europe Late in the evening of August 25, 1914, German troops broke into the...
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Laurie Taylor column
Lapping speaking. Morning, Lapping. Targett here. Jamie Targett. Head of corporate development. Just giving you a quick bell about your draft RAE submission. Will it do? Well, it's definitely in the...
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Leader: Unfortunate news measured on an uneven yardstick
It would be a mistake to conclude, as some in the media have already done, that English degrees are not only more expensive than their overseas equivalents but also less rigorous. The Higher...
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Time to privilege talent over luck 1
Yet another study, this time by the Sutton Trust, demonstrating that top universities tend to select students from elite (and mainly private) schools ("Elite few still fill top universities",...
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Time to privilege talent over luck 2
Sir Peter Lampl calls it a "sad waste of talent" that many straight-A state educated students tend not to enter Oxbridge and other traditional universities. What patronising nonsense. Why can't he...
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Time to privilege talent over luck 3
The reason some Oxford colleges admit a higher proportion of state-school students than others is that a higher proportion of their applicants come from state schools. This often reflects the...
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Time to privilege talent over luck 4
We are concerned that your coverage of the Sutton Trust report will discourage the very students that we are keen to encourage to apply. We are confident that students with the right subject mix of A...
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Time to privilege talent over luck 5
This is the first time that a British journal dedicated to higher education has dared to draw attention to the unfairness of allowing private tuition for students ("Private tuition booms", September...