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UK student traffic among the home nations
About 30,000 students starting an undergraduate degree this year have decided to pursue it in a different UK country from where they live
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The week in higher education - 2 October 2014
As every child knows, while one ice cream might be delicious, two can leave you feeling sick. It is possible that academic and poet Jonathan Hart is reflecting on similar metaphors after finding...
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Local issues will need very close attention
The two opinion pieces on the implications for higher education of the Scottish referendum raise questions for universities in England as debate about the governance of England begins.Sir David Bell...
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Nightmare scenarios
Have we learned nothing in the past six years about the difference between mathematical models and the real world? If you put garbage into a mathematical model, you will get garbage out. If you model...
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Sandwiches on the menu
In arguing for more attention to be given to graduate employability, Ruth Helyer notes that “sandwich programmes…fell out of favour” (“Welcome to the real world – of work”, News, 25 September). If...
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Multi-sector supporters
We wholeheartedly agree with Brian Cox that organisations need to work together to widen participation (“Universities are gold mines and we must better extract their value”, News, 18 September). We...
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Engagement and love
To think that learning requires teaching that is more than mere stimulation and titillation (“Make a class a haven”, Features, 18 September). With 10 years of online teaching, I have matured out of...
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Overcoming inhibitions
I read Bruce Macfarlane’s feature “Speaking up for the introverts” (25 September) with interest. It is not just students for whom shyness can be an issue. In my research into how students describe...
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Versions of Academic Freedom: From Professionalism to Revolution, by Stanley Fish
Thomas Docherty on the fundamental tension between professional duties and civil engagement
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari
Chris Knight on the history of humanity and the myths that shape our civilisations
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Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements, by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon and Astrid Henry
Mary Evans on a study of the US feminist movement from the 19th century
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Why Grow Up?, by Susan Neiman
Jane O’Grady on what it means to be mature in an infantilising culture
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Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History, by Charlotte Roberts
Richard Bosworth lauds a study of a complex and enduringly valuable work of scholarship
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Decline and Fall: history’s big bang
Richard Bosworth lauds a study of a complex and enduringly valuable work of scholarship