Research relevance
University research currently speaks to a limited audience. For it to become the “fifth estate”, as Beate Scholz and David Bogle suggest (“Truth in research”, Letters, 22 December), will require...
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TEF isn’t terrifying
The teaching excellence framework should be seen as a welcome addition to the information landscape for prospective students. This is a tool that can assure students about teaching quality. It will...
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How to speak truth to power
In an era of post-truth politics, academics and their research still have a vital role to play in influencing policy, says Graeme Reid
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Grant winners – 12 January 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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Universities are facing iceberg alley
As campus fortunes fluctuate with changing oil, currency and tuition prices, a Brexit bounce is a possibility. The state can steer the academy towards it
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Top universities for working with most innovative firms
Data reveal institutions that have co-authored the most papers with top 25 firms in new innovation list
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Vet undergraduate wins teaching award
Final-year Edinburgh student is first Scottish undergraduate to win such an award and could be first in the UK
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Lord Knight: observations on the HE and Research Bill debate
Jim Knight on the early committee stages of the HE and Research Bill in the Lords
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What does Lords defeat mean for HE bill?
Lord Stevenson on the problems facing the Higher Education and Research Bill, which was amended on its first day in committee in the Lords
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Academics swear on Twitter ‘more than expected’
A study has revealed that people can often make the wrong assumption about the level of education of someone tweeting
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Learning by ‘not doing’ may be just as effective, suggests study
Research raises questions about how to create tomorrow’s entrepreneurs
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Best researchers ‘are perfectionists’, suggests study
Attributes of top scientists mapped in new paper