THE podcast: 3 October 2013 issue review
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World University Rankings 2013-2014 results
Good news for capital, but fears grow that data reflect growing UK inequality
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Q&A with Martin Bean
We speak to the vice-chancellor of The Open University. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Royal Society celebrates Anglo-Brazilian links
São Paulo announces further tie-ins at three-day symposium
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Feedback on feedback
Anthony Seldon (“Right to reply”, Opinion, 19 September) declares that university teaching can be improved through student feedback appraisals. Yet this reverses the normal teacher-student...
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Gentlemen’s Disagreement: Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men, by Peter Hegarty
Donna Drucker on the relationship between intelligence and sex
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Cultural Passions: Fans, Aesthetes and Tarot Readers, by Elizabeth Wilson
Sophie Fuggle on the constantly changing debate between high and low culture
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The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, by Gregory Nagy
Barbara Graziosi evaluates a crash course in classical myth
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Lessons from the L'Aquila earthquake
Earthquake experts must communicate public risk more effectively to avoid a repetition of the Italian media fiasco that a year ago culminated in jail terms for the academics involved
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Regent’s clashes with US evangelists over title
Religious body seeks secular redress for ‘trademark infringement’
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Moocs: from mania to mundanity
After the hype is over, e-learning will be the norm, predicts Stephen Haggard
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News in brief - 3 October 2013
Knowledge transferSharpening the scalpelDavid Willetts, the universities and science minister, met with business leaders and academics at the University of Leeds last week to discuss the government’s...
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Quantitative skills training boosted to £19.5m
Q-Step programme at 15 universities set to improve social science students’ expertise
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Unity through diversity
US colleges and universities are once again facing scores of applications for incoming classes, but this year the process is more complicated. The US Supreme Court’s decision last June in the case of...
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Roger Brown: mandarin, v-c, quality chief, ‘nuisance’
The insider’s outsider reflects a career at the heart of the higher education sector