Ucas mulls major changes to clearing
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What are you reading? 鈥 18 August 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education 鈥 18 August 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world鈥檚 media
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Everyday Stories, by Rachel Bowlby
This study reminds us of the radicalism of bringing the quotidian into art, writes Shahidha Bari
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Fumo: Italy鈥檚 Love Affair with the Cigarette, by Carl Ipsen
R.鈥塉.鈥塀. Bosworth traces the state鈥檚 long involvement in the production and sale of tobacco to its citizens
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Distant and discontent: the downsides of digital learning
Despite many advances, online programmes suffer from technical faults and a dispiriting lack of interaction, as two scholars found
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International and postgraduate fees survey, 2016
Post-Brexit, will EU students still see English HE as value for money, and what are the pros and cons of charging them international fees?
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Why academics should make time for social media
Andy Miah, chair in science communication and future media at the University of Salford, on why academics should maintain their online presence
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The Olympics are here: let鈥檚 sing the body electric
The Games remind cerebral sorts that the brain resides in an amazing physical vessel, Shahidha聽Bari writes
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Carry on researching
There is a bit of 鈥渄on鈥檛 question our behaviour, trust us鈥 to the proposals in the Stern review and the recommendations about non-portability (鈥淪tern might change the rules, but the REF game is still...
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Summer what?
Reading the feature on the summer habits of academics, I thought that it must be nice to be an academic able to work at home or at the beach and go on (genetic material sharing opportunity)...
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Taking the lead
The need to 鈥渂uild bridges鈥 in the right places is key to future success for many universities (鈥淐ould accepting a Poppleton view of the campus build bridges?鈥, News, 4 August). However, the academic...
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Turkey鈥檚 plight
I declare an interest in the fate of Turkish academic colleagues, as a university teacher of Armenian heritage (鈥溾榃itch-hunt鈥 against academics continues following attempted Turkey coup鈥, www....
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Recording lectures benefited me and my students
Lecture capture enhances learning and shifts the audience鈥檚 attention from their notes to you, argues David Grumett