Career advice: how to survive your first exam board
Robert MacIntosh explains what to expect when staff enter the little-known world of the university exam board
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Should middle-ranking universities push for the top?
THE analysis provides food for thought on the best research strategy for institutions with ‘core strengths’
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Interview with Alan Cooper
The specialist in ancient DNA talks about caving, elephant birds and how tracking prehistoric genetic changes could help fix our dodgy hearts
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Timothy O’Meara, 1928-2018
Champion of the University of Notre Dame’s Catholic identity remembered
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What are you reading? – 5 July 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Can the West ride Chinese higher education tsunami?
There is no holding back the king tide that is the Asian country’s higher education ambition – yet while the torrent carries some riches, what will it sweep away?
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Laurie Taylor – 5 July 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Grade inflation or improved teaching?
The articles “Grades anatomy” and “Bubbles and bombast” suggest that grade inflation is a cause for concern. But over the past few years, universities have invested heavily in technology such as...
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Nursing know-how
We would like to respectfully disagree with comments made by Ann Bradshaw in “To degree or not to degree: that is NOT the question for UK nursing”. Earlier this year, the Nursing and Midwifery...
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Phantom deficit
While negotiations over the future of the Universities Superannuation Scheme continue, our research shows that the USS is more likely to be in surplus than in deficit. As pointed out by the Pensions...
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Appointments – 5 July 2018
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Does research conflict with teaching? It depends what you are researching
Social scientists’ inexplicable failure to conduct research on their own campuses is holding back quality in undergraduate education, says Richard Arum
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When erudition is not enough, activism is a must
When the alt-right made highly dubious claims about historical Irish slavery, Natalie Zacek realised that a rebuttal from an expert would make no difference