Stalin the art lover
It was fascinating to see the article “Is ‘teaching intensity’ a good measure of student learning?” (News, 3 August) illustrated with a rare photograph of V. I. Lenin, cheroot in hand, pointing out...
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ߣߣƵn 'sea bug attack' scientists: getting our facts right (and why it matters)
Joanne Taylor and Genefor Walker-Smith on the importance of scholarly rigour – even when the media want answers fast
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Sabotaged NSS results are an 'own-goal' for UK higher education
The success of the student boycott of the National Student Survey is not necessarily a success for students, writes Andrew McRae
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How to teach students to think beyond their subject
The Humboldt University of Berlin, the historical home of interdisciplinarity, is experimenting with new ways to encourage a broader perspective
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The hangover: academic bad behaviour bites back in class
Study finds that students who witness lecturers misbehaving are more likely to display incivility in lectures or seminars
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National Student Survey 2017: campuses omitted after NUS boycott
Students’ unions achieve goal in teaching excellence framework protest at Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield, and eight other institutions
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Any representation is too much for some Mary Beard critics
Vitriol directed at Cambridge professor of Classics on Twitter is part of wider battle to politicise diversity, says Conrad Brunstrom
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Balancing the books: keeping enterprise going in the age of Brexit
Post-Brexit university funding issues are about more than the big pots of research cash, writes Gurpreet Jagpal
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Secrecy and isolation: the formula for innovative science?
Professor cites Soviet achievements as evidence of how detachment from mainstream scholarship can foster innovation
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Research funders urged to act on short-term contracts
Staff covering for academics on leave are often given no time to conduct research themselves