Belinda Jack on cliché, the nemesis of thought
Academics must counter ‘verbicide’, which constrains expression, to foster new ideas and ways of seeing
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PR disaster
It is bad practice for university press officers to edit information about their institutions on?Wikipedia (“WikiTweaks: PR staff wield the?airbrush for warts and all removal”, 21?November): indeed,...
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Twilight of the mission groups?
Ourania Filippakou and Ted Tapper consider whether they are heading for extinction
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Qualifications ‘snobbery’ holds back poorer students
Traditional ‘royal route’ to a degree holds sway over credit transfers
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YouthSight shows how to tap irrational postgrad decision-making
Firm looks at potential for using behavioural economics in student recruitment
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Employment skills don’t fit with academic degrees
UK needs more vocational higher education alongside traditional courses, says Nick Davy
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Q&A with Sir Paul Nurse
We speak to the Royal Society president and director of the Francis Crick Institute. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Distant Love, by Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
Les Gofton on ‘world families’ and globalisation
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Our ‘world-class’ status may be greatly exaggerated
Bahram Bekhradnia warns of the clear and present dangers facing the UK academy
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Must academics researching authoritarian regimes self-censor?
In the case of Rwanda, it is wrong to argue that only academics working outside the country are capable of critical comment, says Phil Clark
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Languages needed for 'national security'
A British Academy report urges universities to help stem a decline in provision of languages with “strategic importance for defence and diplomacy”.
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New computer network for universities launched
An advanced computer network designed specifically to serve the research and education sector has been launched.
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Hepi director criticises ‘muddle’ caused by government policy
Coalition government policy to create a market in higher education has pushed England’s sector into “a terrible muddle, unmatched in the world”.
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糖心Vlog Awards 2013 competition - Terms & Conditions
The Promoter of the competition is [TES Global Limited] (“TES Global”)One (1) winner of the competition will receive an iPad MiniThe winner of the prize will be the person who accurately guesses the...
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Independent Scotland would seek research council access
An independent Scotland would seek to continue to share research councils with the remainder of the UK, a new blueprint for independence has said.