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鈥檛 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 鈥榤ountain ice cream鈥
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Felipe Fern谩ndez-Armesto: Parlez-vous Anglais?
Foreign flavours enrich the English tongue, says Felipe Fern谩ndez-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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Best University Workplace Survey: unease at inadequate language skills
31 per cent of scholars think international students鈥 English skills are not up to scratch
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Sir Mark Walport debunks 鈥榤yth鈥 that he is pushing research agenda
Chief scientific adviser is 鈥榓mused鈥 by funding conspiracy theories but dismisses them as 鈥榗omplete invention鈥
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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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The call of duty met, not surpassed
As an ex-academic who is now self-employed, I was struck by the fact that what you describe as 鈥渁cademic citizenship鈥 is in fact merely 鈥減rofessional citizenship鈥 (鈥淕ood works鈥, Features, 29 January...
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Susan Bassnett, Clare Debenham, Richard Howells, Sandra Leaton Gray and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Robert Berner, 1935-2015
The 鈥淧icasso of low-temperature geochemistry鈥 has died
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Q&A with Jo Rycroft-Malone
We speak to one of the most highly cited global researchers about her move to become director of the health services and delivery programme at the NIHR
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Everyday successes are important, too
Academics鈥 tendency to feel they have not 鈥榙one enough鈥 needs to be tempered by an appreciation of colleagues鈥 achievements
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A little explanation goes a long way
A professor giving students one-on-one help to understand their subject raises questions about the nature of university teaching, says Brian Bloch