Duke dean: universities ‘should accept responsibilities’ on trust
Bill Boulding of Fuqua School of Business says higher education must create a culture of public trust in academia through those they educate
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Enterprise courses in HE ‘reluctant’ to give real-world scenarios
Creator of crowdfunding teaching tool says entrepreneurship courses should drop the traditional business plan as a method of assessment
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Disability cuts lead to universal lecture capture policy
De Montfort University is asking staff to record their lectures to help students with disabilities
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Seymour Roworth-Stokes, 1965-2016
An acclaimed designer who became an academic leader has died
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First university secular adviser seeks ‘robust debate’
Westminster looks to new ways for students from 150 countries to explore their differences
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Interview with Philip Moriarty
We talk about the impenetrability of physics, the problem with Psi and “corporate uni bollocks”
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UK ‘should learn from’ NZ’s example of arresting loan defaulters
Hepi report looks at New Zealand’s lessons for UK on overseas loan defaults and private expansion problems
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Anthropology atlas opens up new vistas for research
The D-PLACE tool means anthropologists and historians can finally statistically test theories about what shapes human culture and society
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QAA reviews raise questions over sector expansion plans
Smaller, newer alternative providers are less likely to pass higher education review, analysis says
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, From Missiles to the Moon to Mars, by Nathalia Holt
Book of the week: Meet the human computers in heels who juggled science and family, says Margaret A. Weitekamp
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What are you reading? – 28 July 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy, by Robert H. Frank
An economist explains to the rich that they didn’t build that, Danny Dorling writes
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My Grandmother’s Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry, by Craig Raine
David Gewanter on a poet’s turning his telltale gaze to works of verse and makers of muddled readings and purveyors of ‘balonium’
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Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel, by Dov Waxman
Projecting their hopes and fears on to Israel has polarised Jews in the US, says William Kolbrener