National Teaching Fellows of 2015 are named
Fifty-five people working in universities have been named as the latest winners of the sector’s top honour for teaching and learning
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Back universities to grow economy, says UUK
Universities UK has launched its fightback against the prospect of further funding cuts with the publication of a study highlighting the economic benefits of higher education
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Athena SWAN set to spread wings and head Down Under
As the gender equality charter mark prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary, it looks to partner with a local agency in ߣߣÊÓƵ
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Student grants may become loans as BIS prepares to wield the axe
A former adviser to Vince Cable expects maintenance grants to disappear and a lower loan repayment threshold as department tackles £450m cut
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Long-distance relationships: challenges faced by internationalisation staff
Improving partnerships with overseas universities is seen as the biggest challenge facing internationalisation staff in European universities, according to research
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FutureLearn looks beyond the 1% to offerings of post-92s
UK Mooc platform adds new partners after admitting that using global rankings as a proxy for quality ‘hides a lot of detail’
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Grant income targets set at one in six universities, THE poll suggests
FoI request reveals which institutions have targets of some sort after the suicide last year of a professor at Imperial College London
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Half of universities have ‘made changes to degree algorithms’
Higher Education Academy report into quality assessment recommends creation of a task force to establish guidelines around the 2:1-2:2 borderline
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Laurie Taylor – 11 June 2015
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The week in higher education – 11 June 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Count sheep, not metrics
Given the run of campus, some academics would target what they see as cult practices that raise stress and cut productivity
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Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Hope and the Humanist Imagination, by Ken Plummer
A sexology for our age examines a global and multifaceted part of humanity, says Sally R. Munt
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What are you reading? - 11 June 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Sex by Numbers: What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour, by David Spiegelhalter
Danny Dorling gets to grips with in-your-face, full-frontal calculations of carnality