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Have you ever wanted to know what wasn't art, or the difference between ethics and morality, or if, assuming there is no afterlife, it's irrational to fear death? Now members of the public with a...
Have you ever wanted to know what wasn't art, or the difference between ethics and morality, or if, assuming there is no afterlife, it's irrational to fear death? Now members of the public with a...
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle SUSTAINABLE management of tropical forests may cause more environmental damage than...
Tim Cornwell reports on how 13 US states aim to build 'the Virtual U' Bottoms on seats, says Governor Roy Romer contemptuously, is how the United States measures the education of its students: "Our...
Pressure to publish seen as ‘contributing factor’ to recent suicides, as Madras faces backlash on doctoral monitoring
Re your feature on private higher education in Africa (“A ‘teaching shop’ on every corner”, 22 October). As a veteran educationalist in Africa, I fully agree with the statement by Adebayo Olukoshi...
LLE can overturn ‘mad idea’ that university must happen between ages 18 and 21, says David Latchman, stepping down as Birkbeck v-c after 21 years
In John Gilbey’s seasonal tale, the sharks are circling the vice-chancellor of the University of Rural England. But the fishing village to which he flees is not as innocent as he depicted it in his...
Study points to a ‘new kind of pedagogy’ on the higher education horizon. Jack Grove reports
For Felipe Fernández-Armesto, the pen is mightier than the memory board
Students at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology found themselves forbidden from using the Facebook social networking website at the start of the new semester as part of a week-long...
If university websites are evaluated only as a marketing tool for attracting undergraduate applicants ("Deciphering the code", 19 August), there is a danger that they will become less usable for...
Alongside universities offering more relevant information on their home pages, they also need to get out there on the sites where students actually communicate and engage. Why is it that a university...
Pondering the usefulness of university presences online, it seems to me that one crucial factor is missing - namely a facility for interacting with university vice-chancellors. A weekly session...
Researcher's tale of grant denial is on YouTube to show reality of life in science, writes Zoe Corbyn
I was somewhat surprised to see Neil McBride's article on computer science (Opinion, February 9). Yes, we do teach algorithms, some of which have "remained unchanged for 30 years". Would McBride like...