Behind the scenes
Inadvertently or otherwise, Laurie Taylor’s use of a theatrical analogy to describe the relationship between academics and administrators proffers an interesting if potentially unsettling vision of...
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Everyone’s a critic
Trisha Greenhalgh disagrees with my opinion that pre-publication peer review is a waste of time (“Peer review not yet sunk”, Letters, 4 June). Her disagreement, however, is based on a small technical...
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The cake is a lie
In Noel-Ann Bradshaw’s review of Cakes, Custard and Category Theory (Books, 4 June), there is a comment about how a sugar-free, wheat-free plum cake looks like and behaves similarly to a cake but “is...
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Boost grant success rates with ‘advanced’ support
When grant managers provide specialised input, approval rates rise, study finds
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Crossing the Line: verbatim play probes tension at top of universities
Premiere of work based on 16 frank interviews with vice-chancellors and the chair of governors
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Shore up the foundations of world-class science, v-c urges
University of Leicester head tells ARMA conference that the start of research careers and early work needs support
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Athena SWAN set to spread wings and head Down Under
As the gender equality charter mark prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary, it looks to partner with a local agency in Australia
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Student grants may become loans as BIS prepares to wield the axe
A former adviser to Vince Cable expects maintenance grants to disappear and a lower loan repayment threshold as department tackles £450m cut
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Long-distance relationships: challenges faced by internationalisation staff
Improving partnerships with overseas universities is seen as the biggest challenge facing internationalisation staff in European universities, according to research
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FutureLearn looks beyond the 1% to offerings of post-92s
UK Mooc platform adds new partners after admitting that using global rankings as a proxy for quality ‘hides a lot of detail’
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Grant income targets set at one in six universities, THE poll suggests
FoI request reveals which institutions have targets of some sort after the suicide last year of a professor at Imperial College London
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Half of universities have ‘made changes to degree algorithms’
Higher Education Academy report into quality assessment recommends creation of a task force to establish guidelines around the 2:1-2:2 borderline
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Laurie Taylor – 11 June 2015
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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The week in higher education – 11 June 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Count sheep, not metrics
Given the run of campus, some academics would target what they see as cult practices that raise stress and cut productivity