Future perfect: what will universities look like in 2030?
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Grant winners – 24 December 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Academics must face EU’s ‘inconvenient truth’
Only a Brexit can deliver the pro-higher education regime UK universities need, argues Jamie Martin
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A professor’s Boxing Day diary
Emma Rees tackles work, the ultimate seasonal fun spoiler, and finalises her list of new year’s resolutions
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The scholarly gift that keeps on giving
Shahidha Bari examines the ritual of exchanging Christmas presents as she mulls the best gift that academics can share
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Laurie Taylor: Christmas at Poppleton University
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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What the REF review needs
It is good that Baron Stern of Brentford, a known sceptic of the research excellence framework, will chair a review of the exercise, but given the nature of these things I am doubtful of any positive...
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Harsh truths
Journalists – if not their editors – were once thought to be capable of boldly digging for the truth at the expense of the reputations of others, but how many academics dare tread that path (“Could...
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Curriculum building
While I have no problem at all with involving students as partners (or producers) who advise on teaching and review reading lists, the real problem – from a design perspective – is that while those...
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Selective hearing
Perhaps it would be more accurate for the article on highly selective universities lowering their entry standards to point out that so-called “elite universities” are no longer quite so elite (“Elite...