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Taught postgraduates commend teaching but want more feedback
Postgraduate students have praised the quality of teaching they receive, but many remain unsatisfied with the feedback they are given about their work.A total of 32,638 students responded to the...
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Manchester appoints Dame Nancy Rothwell as its vice-chancellor
First woman to lead the institution will bring her own ‘distinctive strengths’ to the role. Sarah Cunnane reports
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Higher fees would mean fewer students, survey suggests
The number of students aspiring to go to university would drop “dramatically” if annual tuition fees were to rise to £7,000, according to a survey.Of 2,700 young people who took part in an Ipsos MORI...
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Glamorous and ordinary
The Royal Family’s humanity and fallibility are strengths, not weaknesses, argues A. W. Purdue
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Disagreement between Scottish Funding Council and universities over knowledge-exchange cash rumbles on
Universities have refused to compromise in an ongoing row with the Scottish Funding Council over how to allocate funds for knowledge exchange.
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Hill wins Oxford poetry post
Geoffrey Hill has been elected the University of Oxford’s new professor of poetry
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Faster and better: undergraduates on two-year track outperform three-year peers
Students who take two-year undergraduate degrees achieve better results than those who study for the standard three years, a conference will hear today.An evaluation of the fast-track degrees carried...
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University of Derby takes top honour at the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards
The spirit of #loveHE was displayed in abundance in Mayfair last night as an awards ceremony showcased the best in administrative excellence in the sector. The second annual Times Higher Education...
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Book of the week: Last Looks, Last Books
The death of the poet self-foretold: David Gewanter on an esteemed critic's graveside meditation
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Would You Eat your Cat? Key Ethical Conundrums and What They Tell You about Yourself
Simon Blackburn wonders why some moral questions are so tantalisingly difficult to answer
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Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain
Do we need another book on the evacuation of children in Britain during the Second World War? John Welshman asks this question of himself in the opening of this compelling narrative account of the...
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The Canon: The Language of the Third Reich by Victor Klemperer
Victor Klemperer's vital contribution to academia doesn't take the form of an influential theory, or a path-breaking conceptual framework, or even a scholarly mastery of his field (although he was an...
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Predicting the Unpredictable: The Tumultuous Science of Earthquake Prediction
Seismologist Ian Main on why more lives are saved by preparation than prognostication
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Peace Processes: A Sociological Approach
John Brewer's Peace Processes: A Sociological Approach stands out for two reasons: first because it is written in an accessible, reader-friendly manner - a sign, I always think, of the author's self-...