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Marking boycott is an unconscionable sanction
Many lecturers will not even consider the ‘nuclear option’ of boycotting marking in the pay dispute, says Bill Ashraf
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Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World, by Michael Scott
Barbara Graziosi on the ‘management consultant’ whose advice was sought for more than 1,000 years
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Standards and pay in public life
As vice-chancellors’ salaries creep up, do university heads risk the same fate as bankers in the court of public opinion?
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Bouncing back
One of our university’s leading physicists, Dr Helen Robards, has entered the debate about student loan repayments.Dr Robards told our reporter Keith Ponting (30) that her interest was prompted by...
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Overhaul of metrics usage could cut frequency of REF
Chair of review into use of metrics suggests REF interval could be cut to once a decade
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East meets West in MBA for future masters of universe
‘Billionaires come to us to study’, Chinese business school dean says of his role in £77,000 joint course
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The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World From Scratch, by Lewis Dartnell
What will we need to know to reboot civilisation after the apocalypse?, asks Alison Stokes
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Sir David Watson: Russell Group is not all it’s cracked up to be
Senior scholar decries ‘divisive’ mission groups and government’s market focus
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Let’s discuss the way we live now
Good communication is vital when dealing with allegations of harassment, says Luke Brunning
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3 April 2014
Executive weighting - Are business-led boards to blame for tipping the scales on v-cs’ pay?
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Sir Graham Hills, 1926-2014
A former principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Strathclyde, acclaimed for his efforts to widen access to higher education for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, has died
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THE Scholarly Web - 3 April 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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News in brief - 3 April 2014
Undergraduate achievementDifferent classes’ different classesA new study indicates that state school pupils go on to get better degrees than private school peers with the same A-level grades. The...
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World in brief - 3 April 2014
United StatesYale professor changes courseUS massive open online course provider Coursera has appointed former Yale University president Richard Levin its chief executive officer. Professor Levin, 66...