Nick Freestone wants to put teaching centre stage
The bioscience teacher of the year, whose pedagogical skills were honed on the fly, is pressing for more recognition of teaching. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments
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Academia.edu founder on Open Access dreams
Discoveries by laypeople are rare but free access to research results would increase the likelihood, says Richard Price
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Female professors less likely to have children
Australian survey suggests women pay a higher career penalty when they become parents
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Fred Inglis on Richard Hoggart
A leading light in the study of culture fought many battles that now need to be fought again
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State-funded overseas exchanges: scholarship or tourism?
Nations paying to send students and researchers abroad often fail to assess their value, study finds
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Nigerian university united by Islamist terror
Vice-chancellor of Bayero University Kano says his institution grew stronger after a deadly 2012 attack
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Thinktank adds to pressure to take students out of net migration figures
Bright Blue campaign challenges coalition policy
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Love of learning is the new employability
Ensuring that skills are used at work will soon be a focus of future education debate, Pearson report argues
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Scholars explore impact of funding changes in Europe
Book examines the effects of ‘modernisation agenda’ on the Continent’s public universities in a time of austerity
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Former lecturer at Imperial College London wins compensation for unfair dismissal
But tribunal cuts scientist’s payout by 20 per cent to reflect ‘perverse’ attitude
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The Psychopath Whisperer: Inside the Minds of Those Without a Conscience, by Kent Kiehl
Luna Centifanti welcomes a disentanglement of popular confusions over brain and behaviour
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Has the student voice been tamed?
Universities’ zeal for student feedback centres on NSS surveys and best-practice audits; those expressing critical views are increasingly unwelcome
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8 May 2014
Sit up and be counted - Has the student voice been tamed?
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World in brief - 8 May 2014
FranceExchange workshopMeasures to help more students, staff and PhD candidates at French universities spend time abroad have been explored at a special workshop on the subject in Paris. The...
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Grant winners - 8 May 2014
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Dmitriy RumyninInstitution: University of WarwickValue: £152,563Hecke algebras and Kac-Moody groups: representations, lattices and...