Expert trumpet-blowing
Every successful operation needs teamwork. Before surgeons operate, anaesthetists attend to the patients. Chefs cook the food and waiting staff deliver it to the tables. So why should academics write...
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Spare the special pleading
It is perhaps unsurprising that Vikesh Kakad, president of the British Pharmaceutical Students' Association, and John Smart, chairman of the Pharmacy Schools Council, fear the spectre of an increase...
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Tourist turn-offs
The government's refusal to budge on the issue of excluding university-sponsored students from its net migration figures, despite compelling economic and academic arguments for doing so, is beginning...
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More farce than threat
Richard J. Evans' account of student protests during the Queen's visit to the University of Stirling in 1972 brought back fond memories - I was a member of the students' union council that was...
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Believers in science
In "Believing is not always seeing" (Books, 25 October), Steve Fuller writes: "Religious believers know how the secular world works, yet they openly reject its principles without compromising their...
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Invitation to spend
This is a warning about a change of language, especially for professors emeriti.I received a letter requesting that I give an invited lecture at a certain conference in another country and I agreed....
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'All should be welcome' on higher rungs of the ladder
Procedures must change to improve women’s options, says Brunel’s new head. Jack Grove writes
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Blog-standard turn-offs for social media neophytes
But tailored training can boost take-up among scholars at all levels, researcher tells Chris Parr
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Teaching intelligence - This game is wide open
If Moocs are the future of learning, they’re still not without precedents or pitfalls, reports Tom Barfield
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How publishers feather their nests on open access to public money
Not a peep from Finch as scholarly journal firms fly off to tax havens and grow ever more profitable. Simon Lilley does the sorry sums
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Open to question
OERs are touted as the answer to all manner of global ills, but much work is needed before they fulfil the promise, writes Jeremy Knox
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'Copy BT model' for privatisation
Telecoms monopoly break-up offers lessons for higher education, says college. John Morgan writes
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Oxford admissions rouse passion as two tribes war over 'unfairness'
Privilege and discrimination: what better topics for a frenzied debate? John Morgan listened in
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Students fight EU loan plan
Guarantee scheme will aid banks, not us, insists European Student Union. Matthew Reisz reports