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When toddler-wrangling there’s no time to procrastinate, John Kaag discovers
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Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica by T. J. Clark
Alex Danchev applauds a study of one of the 20th century’s greatest thinker-painters
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Hollywood madness
Davina Quinlivan detects a shift to more rounded representations of mental illness on screen
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Tangled webs unwoven online
Website dedicated to uncovering academic misconduct goes global
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Red card for global misconduct
Website dedicated to uncovering academic misconduct goes global. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Salford’s vice-chancellor’s candid mea culpa
Martin Hall offers regrets after inglorious June but remains committed to post
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Rate Your Lecturer website scores poorly with lecturers
Founder Michael Bulman digs in as academics expound on offering’s weaknesses
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Fast, local relief for complaints
When it comes to resolving student grievances in the high fees era, it is best if universities can nip them in the bud
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Handling complaints in the high fees age
As students grow keener to stand up for their rights over perceived wrongs, is the sector doing all it can to be consistent, fair and prompt when resolving disputes?
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Gender survey of UK professoriate, 2013
Just one in 10 at the grade is female at some institutions, Hesa shows
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Fraud fears rocket as Chinese seek a place at any price
Western universities scramble to spot fraudulent applications from China’s hypercompetitive students
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Two-year degrees floated by Welsh government
The Welsh government has said it will look into “radical” innovations in higher education, including compressing undergraduate degrees into two years.
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Drugs ban is ‘scientific censorship’, says paper
The banning of psychoactive drugs amounts to one of the worst cases of scientific censorship in modern times, researchers have argued.
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Oxford criticised in latest Green League
Universities have been lambasted for their “excruciatingly slow progress” on switching away from investments in “unethical” industries such as oil.
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Welsh universities ‘create billions’ for country’s economy
Universities in Wales have launched a report that argues that they create £3.6 billion for the country’s economy every year.