Grant winners – 17 December 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Laurie Taylor – 17 December 2015
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Don’t dismiss digital media – they have as much value as paper
Big data, Google Books and the Ngram database are wonderful aids to today’s intellectual problems, argues Frank Furedi
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The market will drive out dyslexic students
New approach to provision of specialist support is threat to students’ effective participation, warns Harriet Cameron
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Campus racism: could it happen here?
Felipe Fernández-Armesto’s students, shocked by racist outrages at the University of Missouri, mull over the content and context of their curriculum
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In sum, cogita
The “what are you going to do with that?” question aimed at those wishing to read for subjects such as philosophy (“Can philosophy survive in an academy driven by impact and employability?”, Features...
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What did we learn?
So what goes around comes around, and of course Johnny Rich will be aware that his sentiments about employability are not only in the Higher Education Academy’s annals, but also that the same...
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Don’t call Nurse
The transfer of quality-related research funding to Research UK is neither as straightforward nor as desirable as suggested in the article “Nurse review offers broad-spectrum remedy for UK research...
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Soft strengths
In The Wealth of Nations, the Tories’ favourite philosopher, Adam Smith, espoused a view of education that is distinctly at odds with modern Tory policy. For Smith, the education of ordinary people...