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Students 'let down' by the academic Luddites
Survey finds that academy is failing to capitalise on new technology. Sarah Cunnane reports
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Research findings, impact enhanced: let's face the conference and dance
Shy, retiring types look away now: presentations at a forthcoming academic conference will be delivered through song, dance and theatrics in an attempt to overcome the "deadening" effects of...
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Recruitment deal in India goes sour
Chennai agent demands £300,000 compensation from Coventry University. John Morgan reports
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Nip and tuck for externals? A radical facelift is required
Quality assurance experts disappointed that review ignores major problems. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Standard Response: Good tools but you need to show how they work
Universities value the "toolkit" they use to set academic standards, but the kit is doing little to reassure the public, a review has found.
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Private virtues include 3% pay rise for staff
As higher education staff in state-funded universities contemplate the possibility of a 0.4 per cent pay deal, a private college is trumpeting its 3 per cent pay rise as evidence of the virtues of...
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Cut REF work: Check the best and sample the rest
RAE assessor suggests a way to reduce costs, save time and improve quality. Paul Jump reports
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#LoveHE: Making your own luck
Anshul Tomer, a successful actor and singer, is thankful for the life-changing experience of studying in Edinburgh
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Changing the timetable: Academic freedom or just plain annoying?
John Turner has given up trying to please everyone. Restricting the choices of a few is a necessary part of protecting the majority
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Top 20 Journals in Neuroscience and Behaviour
JournalPapersCitationsCitations Per Paper1Science714103,741145.302Nature69392,089132.883Nature Reviews Neuroscience72579,822110.104Nature Neuroscience2,039143,67970.475Neuron3,121213,65068.466Trends...
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Here comes your Holiday Special!
This is the time of year when academics take full advantage of their two-week statutory holiday allowance and seek out pastures new. And this year, The Poppletonian will be going with some of them.In...
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Be different, be (s)quids in
Teaching graduates how to think will help them get jobs, says Tim Birkhead
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: The way to infinitives and beyond
Why is it always only the young, who are still learning, who are taken to task over poor spelling and grammar?"When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split," the writer...