Independent study more useful than contact hours, study suggests
UK Engagement Survey finds undergraduates develop skills better out of – rather than in – the classroom
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Degree courses ‘need adapting for commuter students’
Assessment, timetables and module weighting could be altered to reduce pressures for students who travel a long way to university each day, says study author
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Columbia University global centres aim to prove university’s ‘relevance’
Universities must adopt global, rather than international, outlooks, says scholar
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Interview with Stephen Buckman
We talk blue-sky thinking, academic mobility and not ‘sweating the small stuff’ with the new Australian Research Council funding director
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Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka: ‘I wanted to smash bust of Churchill’
The university professor and former political prisoner compares his own iconoclastic impulses to Rhodes Must Fall movement
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The rise of European university networks
University leaders from across the Continent explain why collaboration is more important than ever as a new mission group forms in Amsterdam
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Katharine Perera, 1943-2016
An expert on children’s reading who was closely involved in the merger that created the University of Manchester has died
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10 questions to answer before launching a transnational HE venture
Kevin Dunseath and Chris Hall on the issues that anyone considering setting up a programme abroad should think through before committing significant funds
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Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist’s Ethical Journey, by John P. Gluck
Book of the week: A memoir wrestles with moral questions about using animals in research. Kristin Andrews writes
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What are you reading? – 3 November 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future, by Sheila Jasanoff
A clear-eyed study of shiny and new inventions calls for better oversight, says Richard Joyner
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Health Divides: Where You Live Can Kill You, by Clare Bambra
Marcus Chown on a deeply political study that explains why inequality exists and that while ending it will not be easy, it is not impossible
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Brexit prompts Ireland to attract ‘world-leading’ researchers
Government in Dublin plans funding to entice academics in light of Brexit, while joint appointments with UK also floated as option
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What Washington Gets Wrong: The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their Misconceptions about the American People, by Jennifer Bachner and Benjamin Ginsberg
US bureaucrats are ignorant of the public’s views despite sharing similar outlooks, says Kori Schake