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Talking to the media isn’t a minefield, says Fern Riddell, but a manageable opportunity and a civic duty

Talking to the media isn’t a minefield, says Fern Riddell, but a manageable opportunity and a civic duty
The director of fair access to higher education, Les Ebdon, is right to highlight the fact that not enough evaluation is carried out into the effectiveness of the money that institutions spend on...
Brexit was a shock result for many and after weeks of negative discussion about the possible impact on higher education, it was a relief to read a pragmatic response by Nick Hillman, director of the...
Frank Furedi’s piece on how the post-Brexit response suggests an out-of-touch scholarly class is strangely post-factual (“Brexit pity parties show how out of touch academia is”, Opinion, 14 July)....
I read with gusto Randy Malamud’s piece, particularly the suggestion of nudologia (boredology) as the new disciplinary descriptor (“One big yawn? The academics bewitched by boredom”, Features, 14...
Interesting that the guidelines published by the University of Huddersfield accompanying its decision to record teaching sessions refer to the “ethical and practical” problems but not the legal ones...

The gargantuan report with its scholarly focus raises questions over who will digest its intellectual arguments

Academics explore how the seemingly sedate game of housey-housey has attracted many different kinds of government intervention

Scholars take an audience back to the movie nights of 50 years ago

The Home Office has also released data showing experiments on animals across the country have broadly flatlined since 2013

Maximum fees raised in line with inflation for year one of teaching excellence framework

Academia is no stranger to plagiarism controversies – but US politics is. Mark Ridolfo assesses the case of Melania Trump and Michelle Obama