THE podcast: 16-22 October 2014 issue review
Download the podcastPension reforms, graphene and the implications of giving the Scottish parliament more control over immigration are discussed in this week’s ߣߣƵ issue review....
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Born in the GDR: Living in the Shadow of the Wall, by Hester Vaizey
First-person accounts add complexity to popular notions of East Germany, writes Ulrike Zitzlsperger
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Why not dungarees?
Sally Feldman on the fashion choices available to female scholars
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Hidden leopard-skin G-string exposed
Swiss-French scientist says he just wants to have fun
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QAA review: let’s avoid another 'quality war'
Hefce’s decision to invite external bodies to bid for work undertaken by the higher education watchdog carries risks, warns Peter Williams
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UUK data 'misleading' over the impact of USS reform
Oxford criticises figures given to universities illustrating the impact of future cuts amid calls for independent modelling
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Sabine Wichert, 1942-2014
An academic and greatly respected poet who spent more than 35 years in the School of History at Queen’s University Belfast has died
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Q&A with Baroness Bakewell
We speak to the president of Birkbeck, University of London on part-time study, older learners, Barack Obama and tuition fees
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World in brief - 16 October 2014
United StatesAcademic perk for coffee chain staffArizona State University has accepted 1,000 Starbucks employees from across the US for online study after the coffee shop giant announced in June that...
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Grant winners - 16 October 2014
Royal SocietyUniversity Research FellowshipsAward winner: Artem BakulinInstitution: University of CambridgeValue: £446,097Optical control of conductivity in organic- and bio-electronic devicesAward...
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News in brief - 16 October 2014
Work performanceBlack dog days for most staffNearly two-thirds of higher education staff say that their work performance has suffered as a result of mental health problems, according to a survey. A...
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Pensions puzzle
The Employers Pension Forum published a Q&A purporting to explain the reasons for the proposed changes in the Universities Superannuation Scheme with the date 11 August 2014. I read it in...
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Divergence is a dead end
The call by Ferdinand von Prondzynski for sustained divergence of higher education in Scotland misreads history and misinforms regarding the best route to future development (“Staying together but...
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An invigorating influence
Amanda Goodall and Andrew Oswald’s lament about the state of the social sciences (“Time for a makeover?”, Features, 9 October) suggests that they are unfamiliar with the healthy and vibrant...
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Liberal studies
Frank Furedi convincingly argues that the virtues of a liberal education have been supplanted by an economic instrumentalism reinforced by an ideology that sees the recipients of higher education as...