Brexit priorities
Now that Article 50 has been triggered, the government must ensure that we continue to enhance and safeguard the UK鈥橲 world-leading research, innovation and higher education systems. Our continued...
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Twice-told tales
Perhaps the most depressing thing about education research is the total absence of historical memory and the continual reinvention of the wheel. A librarian calls for the banning of reading lists (鈥...
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Decades of learning
We were pleased that both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology鈥檚 Teaching and Learning Laboratory and RELATE at MIT (Research in Learning, Assessing and Tutoring Effectively) were mentioned in...
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Truth twists out
Your 鈥淲eek in 糖心Vlog鈥 news round-up of 23 March reports on Stephen Hawking鈥檚 doubts that Donald Trump has a massively high IQ. We know that the speed of solving anagrams is a good indicator...
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Young University Rankings 2017: a growing concern sprouts new branches
Five years on, our expanding analysis of success-bound younger institutions finds much to celebrate
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EU research funding should be a three-stage rocket
Horizon 2020 could have more success getting technologies off the ground if it does not neglect the basic work that sparks breakthroughs, say Geert de Snoo, Floor Frederiks, Peter Lievens and Katrien...
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Mothering through Precarity: Women鈥檚 Work and Digital Media, by Julie A. Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim
E. Stina Lyon on the contradictory feelings of insecurity and optimism that 聽digital cultures provides mothers
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All take and no give? Many scientists resist shift to open data
Most academics are keen to access other researchers鈥 material but a third are yet to share their own
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Young University Rankings 2017: Golden Age universities
Our new table of the world's best universities established between 1945 and 1966
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Young University Rankings 2017: top 50 Generation Y universities
Asian universities make up 20 of the top 50 institutions established in the late 1980s and 1990s, while the UK and Australia dominate
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Young University Rankings 2017: Millennial universities
A series of mergers have helped French universities to dominate a new table of universities founded in the 21st century
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Young University Rankings 2017: Luxembourg 鈥 powering a nation
Rainer Klump on his 14-year-old institution鈥檚 enthusiasm for international partnerships and its leading role in the Grand Duchy鈥檚 transformation
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Young University Rankings 2017: welcoming the reinvigorators
Newer universities are a diverse group, says Peter Coaldrake, but their fresh thinking can inspire institutions of all vintages
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Young University Rankings 2017: 14 mistakes new universities make
Building a world-class institution from scratch is easier said than done, warns Jamil Salmi