Students see teaching's value, Myshele Goldberg argues: what a shame that managers don't
Students appreciate the value of teaching, says Myshele Goldberg: it’s a shame managers have different ideas

Students appreciate the value of teaching, says Myshele Goldberg: it’s a shame managers have different ideas

Myshele Goldberg on a numbers-based approach that doesn’t add up

Tiffany Taylor weighs the evidence of the importance of random changes in species development

Aaron Rosen on how the UK is improving on a US staple

ߣߣƵMinister has no time for impactThe ߣߣƵn education minister has said that measuring research impact is not necessarily a priority or a worthwhile endeavour. Kim Carr, who recently...

Saudi Arabian scholarship programmeAmerica, here they comeHuge investment by the government of Saudi Arabia in overseas scholarships brought a flood of young Saudis to the US, an analysis suggests....

Parents and students in line for rude awakening

Animated reactionA music video created by an academic has won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Animation. The stop-motion film for the band Fossil Collective’s single Let it Go (above) was...

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University of DundeeMark RobsonThe newly appointed professor of English and theatre studies at the University of Dundee has pointed to the post’s “enormous potential”. “The role that I’ll have at...

Five-year test - Can India raise standards while boosting student numbers?

Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: David CassidyInstitution: University College LondonValue: £147,622Gravitational free-fall experiments with positroniumAward winner: Ingrid...



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