Space opera buffs meet
Fans and academics studying the cult science fiction TV series Battlestar Galactica will gather at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College on July 28 for the first academic conference on the...
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'Damaging overuse' of hype criticised
Rebecca Attwood surveys the agenda for this week's Higher Education Academy conference, and reports on award-winning teachers False or exaggerated claims to "excellence" in teaching and research are...
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Drive-through culture warning
Academics who deliver lectures via the internet risk turning institutions into "drive-through universities", teaching experts will hear this week. Glen Thomas, a senior lecturer at the Queensland...
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Good teaching stifled by audit, HEA head says
A culture of audit and bureaucracy risks driving higher education teaching into "uniformity and monotony" and damaging student learning, according to the head of the body charged with improving...
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In celebration of the art of pedagogy: The winners of the National Teaching Fellowships, 2007
Inspiring teaching is being celebrated this week with 50 National Teaching Fellowships. The Higher Education Academy has chosen lecturers and learning support staff from England and Northern Ireland...
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Forecast saves lives
A recently qualified PhD student has helped the Omani Government avert massive loss of life in a tropical storm. Juma Almaskari was a weather forecaster before coming to the UK to study atmospheric...
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A beeline for food
A bee's favourite colour can help influence how much food it gets from the flowers in its environment, according to new research from Queen Mary, University of London. Nigel Raine and Lars Chittka,...
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Cancer plan attacked
Work-related cancers will claim thousands of lives each year for a further working generation as a result of the "shocking complacency" of the Government's health and safety watchdog, a new report is...
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United over conflict
The universities of Exeter, Cambridge and Queen's Belfast are to unite in a five-year project to help alleviate conflict. Using the examples of Belfast and Jerusalem, the study will examine cities in...
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Profile: Oona King
If anyone was destined to become the champion of a new research centre dedicated to improving community relations, then it surely must have been Oona King. The former Labour MP has just become chair...
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French reform plans on hold
France's new President has already had to compromise on his plans for university autonomy. Jane Marshall explains the objections that he faced During France's recent presidential election campaign,...
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World encompassed
Un report highlights desert threat Enough fertile land could turn into desert within the next generation to create an "environmental crisis of global proportions", large-scale migrations, and...
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My employer is holding me to ransom for RAE
Read the small print in your contract, warns Robert Cook. You may not be free to move as easily as you thought In May I was appointed to a chair at Sussex University. No need for congratulations -...
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Gary Day
Eventually academics catch up with what is happening in the real world. Or is it the other way round? Anyway, we like to think that while the media merely reacts to events, we reflect on them. And...
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We must sit around a single table
A sensible reform of the national pay system is urgently required, argues Alasdair Smith UK higher education faces serious choices about the future of the national pay system. Indeed, there is a real...