US blended learning students ‘least engaged with teaching’
Students on courses that combine online delivery with face-to-face interaction are the least satisfied in Times Higher Education’s US student survey
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Interview with Nirmala Rao
We talk women’s equality and emancipation, the necessity of HE investment in developing countries and eureka moments in the Himalayas with the new head of the Asian University for Women
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African diaspora give back to boost universities on continent
Fellowship programme forges further links across the Atlantic between African and North American academies
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Elementary, Watson? Robot tutor tackles mystery of learning
Pearson’s use of IBM artificial intelligence system heralded as step forward in development of virtual teaching assistants
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William Bowen, 1933-2016
A prominent educational leader who served as president of Princeton University from 1972 to 1988 has died
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Research methods explored in new large-scale video collection
Collection of almost 500 videos looks at everything from planning to presentation
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Promoted from doctor to professor: what changes?
Scholars share what the title means to them and offer the newly promoted advice on handling the status update
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EU to ‘improve and maximise’ impact of research
Critics fear focus on research impact in next funding programme could lead to a REF-type exercise
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Is film a useful way to showcase research?
Matthew Reisz examines the pros and cons of using film as a form of public engagement
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The week in higher education – 10 November 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Freud: In His Time and Ours, by Élisabeth Roudinesco
Book of the week: New sources yield fresh insights and oversights by the father of psychoanalysis, says Janet Sayers
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Laurie Taylor – 10 November 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Amatory Pleasures: Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture, by Julie Peakman
Karen Harvey on a cultural history of sexuality that attempts to put real people centre stage
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The Wisdom of Frugality: Why Less is More – More or Less, by Emrys Westacott
Martin Cohen on the philosophical implications of living the simple life – and owning a homemade toilet-brush holder