Rate your lecturer, urges new UK website
In the US, the Rate My Professors website has been used by students to dish out a “public scolding” to their lecturers – and now the UK has its own equivalent, possibly bringing a shiver of dread to...
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Leeds Met considers new name options
Leeds Metropolitan University is planning to change its name and is looking at three options: Leeds Beckett University, Leeds Headingley University and Leeds Ridings University.
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THE books podcast: Joanna Bourke interview
Download the podcastOur third Books podcast features Joanna Bourke, professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London, in conversation with ߣߣƵ’s books editor, Karen Shook....
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UCU moves closer to industrial action
Lecturers in the University and College Union have moved a step closer to taking industrial action after the union decided to urge members to reject a 1 per cent pay offer
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Wellcome puts trust in expanded open access
The Wellcome Trust has announced plans to extend its open access policy to include scholarly monographs and book chapters
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THE podcast: 30 May 2013 issue review
Download the podcastScholarly criticism of mass tropical disease treatment campaigns, our popular Books section, and the Russell Group’s £500,000 ‘admission fee’ are up for discussion on this week’s...
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Neurons, you’re fired
Leaders lead, not their brains, argue Dirk Lindebaum and Mike Zundel
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Open-access initiatives to benefit the academy
A variety of schemes would allow the academy to reclaim control of its knowledge and labour, says Steffen Böhm
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30 May 2013
Hard to swallow - Keep doubts to yourselves, critics of mass drug programme told.
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News in brief - 30 May 2013
United StatesPolitical costsRepublicans in Ohio want to force its universities to grant in-state tuition fee rates to out-of-state students if the institutions have provided documents allowing...
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Poisonous web of suppression
I recently gave a lecture to undergraduates about how China is viewed globally. During the break, one student asked me: “Sir, could you tell me exactly what stories about China would interest the...
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Palestinian exile refuses to be boxed in
How Bashir Makhoul explores through art the plight of his countrymen
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Grant winners - 30 May 2013
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Services and Delivery Research ProgrammeAward winner: Ellen NolteInstitution: RAND Europe (Cambridge office)Value: £99,939Learning for the NHS on...
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THE Scholarly Web - 30 May 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Appointments - 30 May 2013
University of OxfordAndy OrchardThe next Rawlinson and Bosworth professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford, a post once held by Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien, has described the...