Try harder: Obama’s report cards do not convince
Proposal for scorecard system for US institutions ‘doomed to failure’
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‘Weak’ handling of disputed study risks trust in science
Researcher warns of ‘developing credibility crisis’ in reflection on retracted paper
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Black scholars still experience racism on campus
Black academics claim they are viewed as ‘outsiders’ and hindered in career advancement
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Cost of new fee regime may soon exceed the old
Hitting RAB charge ‘threshold’ will make £9,000 system more costly than old
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Sidestepping diagnosis
In her response to my challenge to the scientific validity of a dyslexia diagnosis (“Time to rethink dyslexia?”, Opinion, 6 March), Kate Saunders reframes the issue in terms of the needs of disabled...
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Growing appetite for university-industry collaborations
REF and ‘impact agenda’ makes sector look at collaborations with extra interest, scholars say
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Marketing spend up, but applications fail to follow suit
Post-92s’ student marketing spend rises as sector observers question its value
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'Self-censorship' in discussion of multiculturalism, says London's deputy mayor
Munira Mirza lauds universities’ role in improving all levels of education in the capital but decries ‘coercive consensus’
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Hazel Christie, Laurence Coupe, Paul Greatrix, Christina Hellmich and Vladimir Tismaneanu...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Jacobean Grand Tour: Early Stuart Travellers in Europe, by Edward Chaney and Timothy Wilks
Colourful travellers’ accounts move the start date for a rite of passage, discovers Claire Jowitt
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Forging Romantic China: Sino-British Cultural Exchange, 1760-1840, by Peter J. Kitson
Eva Shan Chou on a study of British knowledge - as opposed to fanciful assumptions - of China in the Romantic period
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Campus close-up: Norwich University of the Arts
Award of university title will allow arts specialist to clarify its message in the global marketplace
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Elizabeth Newson, 1929-2014
A pioneering developmental psychologist and authority on childhood autism has died
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Q&A with Mark Pegg
We speak to the chief executive of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education
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THE Scholarly Web - 20 March 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere