The week in higher education – 21 January 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Laurie Taylor – 21 January 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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A mantra for the next REF cycle? Keep calm and carry on
We must improve the system we already have, not make a switch to metrics, argues James Wilsdon
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Some assurance on assessments
As ministers and officials in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills assimilate different responses to the Green Paper, there are some overarching messages that emerged from the...
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To learn, not divide
Your graph “Relative earnings by educational attainment” (News, 14 January) showed that graduates with one degree in the UK earned, on average, 54 per cent more than people living here with A levels...
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Polar opposites
It is good to see that the sector is taking notice of some of the disquiet about the use of low participation neighbourhood data (“Higher education access inequality ‘wider than previously thought...
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On campus as in society, freedom of speech is not enough
Whether radicalisation or divestment is the issue, says Keith Burnett, talking without listening first doesn’t help to build a community
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Grant winners – 21 January 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash