Plug in - but tune in, too
An iPad or Kindle does not magically improve education, says Cathy Davidson
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Universities could be in private hands 'in six months'
Mooted change in legal status may allow investors to obtain degree-awarding powers. John Morgan writes
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Researcher faces misconduct probe
Suspended academic launches own investigation and decries 'smear campaign'. Paul Jump reports
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Discontinue impact line or good science will count cost
Lord Sainsbury tells Simon Baker that the coalition is failing to learn from Labour's policy mistakes
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Pension action plans threaten NUS-UCU alliance
The National Union of Students has warned lecturers that student support for industrial action over pensions could be withdrawn.
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Monographs finally join citations database
The use of bibliometric data to assess humanities scholars could become more widespread with the launch of a citation index of academic books.
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Stock plagiarism penalties don't always fit the crime
Scholars identify weaknesses in a proposed sector-wide 'reference tariff'. Jack Grove reports
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Save the world - but nick a bit of it for yourself
If you have ever felt the urge to mug an old lady after buying a package of eco-friendly soap powder, you may not be alone.According to social science publisher Sage's most downloaded article of 2009...
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Wales says it is the victim of a conspiracy
BBC and v-cs have run a 'coordinated series of attacks', university claims. David Matthews writes
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It's better to travel - but Erasmus credits can get lost in translation
'Lack of trust' and course mismatches mean study abroad may go unrecognised. Jack Grove reports
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Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist
For the artist formerly known as Boz, success was no foregone conclusion, writes Valerie Sanders
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Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions
Mary Evans applauds a collaboration that attuned our ear to female voices in fiction
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The Queer Art of Failure
A writer who begins a book by citing the children's TV character SpongeBob SquarePants, who makes the amnesiac fish Dory from Finding Nemo a central figure, and who describes the animated film...
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Perilous Glory: The Rise of Western Military Power
What is it about pre-modern military historians that tempts them to sermonise so readily about the contemporary world? Ancient Greek historians Victor Davis Hanson and Donald Kagan have both become...
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The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization
A morsel of Montaigne manque in the midst of horror proves not to be to Alex Danchev's taste