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Why the ‘leftward lean’ in UK universities matters
John Morgan looks at the ‘culture wars’ approach to universities emerging on the Right, and the counter-arguments
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Laurie Taylor – 1 June 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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PhD supervision: give and you shall receive
Terrible tales attest that some see this activity as a nuisance or worse, rather than as something that can benefit supervisor as much as student, says John Gill
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Profit paints art out of picture at Falmouth
On 22 May, a collective of students, alumni, staff, past colleagues and political activists delivered two petitions to Falmouth University calling on it to abort its decision to scrap two of its most...
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Joint effort needed
The plans in the Conservative Party’s manifesto to cut overseas student numbers smack of Theresa May cutting her nose off to spite her face (“Conservative manifesto: plan to cut overseas student...
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Base medals
When the teaching excellence framework was first mooted, I assumed that, like the Quality Assurance Agency teaching assessments with which I was associated in the early days, it would be by subject....
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Review objectives
Liz Morrish suggests that academics “adopt a stance of concealed menace” towards their assessor to get through their annual performance and development review “unscathed” (Letters, 25 May)....
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Universities with the best staff-student ratio revealed
Universities with the highest student to staff ratio named
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University of Nebraska Medical Center: learning in the lab and on the ward
Working in a hospital setting and in a traditional university helped Kasturi Banerjee gain a well-rounded insight into her research
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UK universities sign up to ‘technician commitment’
Sector-wide initiative led by Science Council seeks to address ‘overlooked’ part of academic workforce
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Compulsory retirement is an old-fashioned lost cause
There is no evidence that mandatory retirement achieves its aims, argues Paul Ewart