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  1. And the awards go to...

    It is of interest that the per capita number of Nobel prizewinnners by country provides another view than that shown by Ellie Bothwell’s report, which is based on overall numbers (“Stanford top of...

    #Letters

  2. Style isn’t everything

    Yellowlees Douglas’ plea for a “scientific” approach to teaching writing skills is understandably a plug for her new book, which may be very good (“Unlocking the black box”, Opinion, 6 August)....

    #Letters

  3. We need Ucas to be open

    We read with frustration Andrew Grice’s recent article in The Independent on Ucas’ refusal to release student data. Higher Education Access Tracker is a collaboration of more than 40 English...

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  4. Teaching standardisation

    Reservations about the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s attempts to measure what students learn at different universities around the world have to come from two directions (“...

    #Letters

  5. Live by the metric…

    Peter B. Baker uses an Isaac Asimov short story to illustrate the absurdity of being able to predict student success based on analysing their first week on the course (“I, graduate”, Letters, 6...

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  9. Patricia Crone

    Patricia Crone, 1945-2015

    A scholar who transformed our understanding of early Islam has died

    #Obituary
    #People
  11. Hugh Hunt, University of Cambridge

    Q&A with Hugh Hunt

    We talk to the University of Cambridge academic who brings engineering to life

    #HE and Me
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  12. Tricia King, Birkbeck, University of London

    Is the UK getting better at philanthropy?

    Incoming vice-president of international operations at Case says that UK fundraisers are ‘wildly talented’ but that the talent pool is ‘still very small’

    #Jobs intelligence
    #News