Postgraduate teachers might damage image
Universities' reputations could suffer if undergraduates perceive that the institutions are leaving teaching to "an insufficiently trained, inappropriately paid and poorly motivated workforce of...
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Research council bucks trend on funding success
The EPSRC's steady rise in grant approval rates continues, but at what cost? Paul Jump reports
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California's best-seller dreams misguided, says new head of university press
In recent years, it has been common for university presses to move away from an almost exclusive focus on scholarly books in favour of general-interest titles.But now the new director of the...
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Swap camels for custom vehicles
Universities told to vaunt uniqueness instead of relying on identikit cliches. David Matthews writes
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Rethink the route to goal
Widening participation needs reconceptualising for a new age, say John Butcher, Rohini Corfield and John Rose-Adams
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More money, more choice and a virtuous circle of innovation
After the turbulence of the past year, business secretary Vince Cable sets out the government's vision for the future of higher education
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Pioneers need not apply
The research councils' use of peer 'preview' is fundamentally flawed and a pathway to mediocrity, argues Donald W. Braben
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Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn
Steve Wheeler is convinced that we need new approaches for digitally remastered learners
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Everyone's a Winner: Life In Our Congratulatory Culture
Les Gofton takes the measure of 'status inflation' and the bathetic growth of universal heroism
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The Origin of Our Species
And God said, let there be culture. And there was culture. Then came technology, art, writing and, eventually, books. Some books featured more convincingly detailed stories about how it all started....
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Popular Support for an Undemocratic Regime: The Changing Views of Russians
Explanations for the durability - or not - of undemocratic regimes could scarcely be more timely, given the upheavals that cashiered strongmen in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, but not (so far) in Syria...
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The University and The People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest
A 19th-century farmers' movement has left its mark on US universities, finds Francisco Ramirez
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Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century
More than two centuries after the revolution of 1789, the identification of the French nation with its republican institutions and values represents one of the most powerful myths in modern history;...
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Virtual Water: Tackling the Threat to our Planet's Most Precious Resource
Tony Allan is acknowledged as a world authority in the political economy of water policy and its reform. A pioneer in the development of key concepts in the understanding and communication of water...
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Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History
Sarah Toulalan praises an exploration of how pre-19th-century societies acted on their urges