The Dewey Dewey fog
On the shelf in staffing termsThere was confusion on campus last week over the eligibility of our library team for the 2013 Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards.Although “...
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From Where I Sit - The ethics of espousing horseplay
From where I sit, I can hear the clanking of old-fashioned brass bells, hung around the necks of a herd of ponies grazing contentedly in the field next door, while behind them the vast bulk of the...
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Open-access policy scrapes the barrel
A disastrous open-access policy lashes the promise of the digital age to an outmoded buggy of a model, laments Martin McQuillan
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Grade point accuracy: for the full picture of student achievement, honours alone are not enough, argues John Raftery
Add grade point averages to honours classification for a better snapshot of student achievement, says John Raftery
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If English becomes the only linguistic currency, the global academy will be debased, argues Toby Miller
English cannot be the only acceptable language of scholarship, says Toby Miller. It’s arrogant, impractical and anti-intellectual
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What’s in a name? Plenty, fears UCU
UCU alarm at Kingston plan to call time on reader and principal lecturer posts. Jack Grove reports
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Be your own boss? Not at post-92s, survey finds
Staff at newer institutions tended to report higher stress levels regarding the level of autonomy they enjoyed in their job, according to an occupational stress survey completed by more than 14,000...
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Arab Spring forecast: mixed
Political shifts viewed with concern and hope by scholars at event in Tunisia. Matthew Reisz writes
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Gnaw horse
From where I sit, I can hear the clanking of old-fashioned brass bells, hung around the necks of a herd of ponies grazing contentedly in the field next door, while behind them the vast bulk of the...
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Aimhigher 2: this time it's slimmer
Comparisons drawn between access plans and scrapped outreach scheme. Jack Grove reports
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THE podcast: 7 March 2013 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanThe potential impact of the spending review on higher education, universities’ approach to risk, and the intellectual rigour of artistic practice as research all feature on...
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Wellcome director with golden touch bids farewell
Sir Mark Walport looks back at a highly successful decade in charge
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Time for GPA, says John Raftery
Add grade point averages to honours classification for a better snapshot of student achievement, says John Raftery
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Kinoteka: Pole positions, projected globally
Migration and the lessons of history inform a cinema with universal appeal, Ewa Mazierska argues
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Polyglots required if we want a place in the global academy
English cannot be the only acceptable language of scholarship, says Toby Miller. It’s arrogant, impractical and anti-intellectual