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Is the sector placing too little trust in academics and too much in performance management techniques?
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Moocs: know your audience and brush up your skills
HEA study offers tips drawn from first-hand accounts of both participants and course creators. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Students are right to ask where their fees go
Excellent teaching shouldn’t cost the earth, even in a market where price is used as a proxy for quality, argues Carl Lygo
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The secret lives of child labourers of the Himalayas
For 15 months, social geographer Jane Dyson lived in a mountain village with young Indian workers, bonding over ‘mountain ice cream’
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto: Parlez-vous Anglais?
Foreign flavours enrich the English tongue, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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The lines on free speech are becoming blurred
Compilers of a league table say fear of offending students has gone too far
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Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina, by Stuart B. Schwartz
Call it a ‘hypercane’ or a ‘weather bomb’, we’re as much at its mercy as ever, writes Philip Hoare
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Best University Workplace Survey: unease at inadequate language skills
31 per cent of scholars think international students’ English skills are not up to scratch
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Sir Mark Walport debunks ‘myth’ that he is pushing research agenda
Chief scientific adviser is ‘amused’ by funding conspiracy theories but dismisses them as ‘complete invention’
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BIS may be abolished under Tories
Writing may be on the wall for Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, according to policy thinktanks
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Must we sell our souls to make a bigger impact?
Efforts to trumpet the value of social science can misrepresent important controversies and subtleties, says Martyn Hammersley
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Best University Workplace Survey 2015: results and analysis
The results show that most people in the sector enjoy their work and their colleagues, but some are happier than others
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Blog: “Mega-faculties” are not the answer
David Phoenix explains why his institution is moving away from the model of big multidisciplinary departments
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Most graduates ‘do not stray far from home' for first job
More than two-thirds of all graduates stay close to home for their first job, a new report reveals
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Anne Glover criticises ‘push back’ in Brussels role
The European Commission’s former chief scientific adviser has spoken out about the ‘push back’ she said she received against her role in Brussels