Laurie Taylor – 10 December 2015
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Grant winners – 10 December 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Authorship abuse is the dark side of collaboration
Too many senior scholars abuse their power when it comes to assigning credit, argues Bruce Macfarlane
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Editorial control is sacrosanct
To our great dismay, Nick Rushby has stepped down as editor of the British Journal of Educational Technology. The basis for his decision lies in a conflict between him as editor (together with much...
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Two-way street
Public engagement in the UK is stuck in the doldrums and fails to recognise that the world’s most intractable problems can be tackled only by building collaborations between people with different...
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Now hear this
“You asked, we listened” is a slogan promoted to students by London Metropolitan University’s vice-chancellor, John Raftery. We hope he is listening now because the students’ union, at its recent...
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Loose suspension
We would like to draw attention to the recent suspension of recruitment to person-centred counselling courses at the University of Strathclyde. The counselling unit is world-leading in its field and...
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We need to talk about employability, not employment
To measure this key graduate outcome, we must better understand what it is, what it is not and what it could be, argues Johnny Rich
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A grant says: ‘You’re worth it.’ A loan says: ‘You are a commodity’
The powerful message that maintenance grants send to students will be lost in the shift to loans, says Carina Buckley