REF’s diversity-boosters find fewer takers in the physical sciences
Report finds new measures did make exercise more inclusive but panels differed in numbers of scholars submitted with reduced outputs
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Rowan Williams on higher education's ‘inhuman and divisive’ jargon
Jargon demanded by REF ‘risks isolating universities from rest of society’
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Do universities really need to change their names?
As King’s College London drops a controversial name change, Harriet Line details the dos and don’ts of institutional rebranding
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Make your mind up time
As we are constantly reminded, the general election draws ever nearer.Here at The Poppletonian, we regard it as vitally important that all our readers have a clear knowledge of how each of the main...
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Sir David Bell, Sir David Eastwood, Sandra Leaton Gray, Jon May and Juan C. Moreno-Cabrera...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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US student debt: borrowing the long and lending the short of it
Financing options fail to live up to the promises made by politicians, says Alan Ruby
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Ulrich Beck, 1944-2015
One of the leading sociologists of his generation has died
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Q&A with Baroness Rebuck
We speak to the publisher and incoming pro-provost and chair of the Royal College of Art’s council
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Academics and admin: too ‘brilliant’ to fill in a form?
A Dutch-born scholar and research administrator wonders if the British class system plays a role in views about division of labour
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World in brief - 29 January 2015
PolandJewish scholars’ PhDs reinstated in belated righting of Nazi-era wrongsA Polish university has reinstated doctorates of Jewish academics that were annulled at the behest of the Nazi regime...
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Grant winners - 29 January 2015
Royal Society/ British AcademyNewton International FellowshipsAwarded to non-UK, early career postdoctoral researchers working across all disciplines of the humanities, engineering and natural and...
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News in brief - 29 January 2015
RankingsQatar and Lebanon take top spotsQatar and Lebanon are the top performers in a snapshot of what a new ranking devoted to universities in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) could look like...
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Blocked passages
If episodes of writer’s block are as common as headaches, are they also as easy to alleviate (“To steer clear of a writing rut, take a helicopter view”, Careers intelligence, 22 January)? Gina Wisker...
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How’s that for a degree?
Given that the University of the Highlands and Islands is to offer a degree in professional golf (“Professional golf degree launched in Scotland”, www.timeshighereducation.co.uk, 21 January), it is...