Scholars explore impact of funding changes in Europe
Book examines the effects of 鈥榤odernisation agenda鈥 on the Continent鈥檚 public universities in a time of austerity
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Former lecturer at Imperial College London wins compensation for unfair dismissal
But tribunal cuts scientist鈥檚 payout by 20 per cent to reflect 鈥榩erverse鈥 attitude
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The Psychopath Whisperer: Inside the Minds of Those Without a Conscience, by Kent Kiehl
Luna Centifanti welcomes a disentanglement of popular confusions over brain and behaviour
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Has the student voice been tamed?
Universities鈥 zeal for student feedback centres on NSS surveys and best-practice audits; those expressing critical views are increasingly unwelcome
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8 May 2014
Sit up and be counted - Has the student voice been tamed?
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World in brief - 8 May 2014
FranceExchange workshopMeasures to help more students, staff and PhD candidates at French universities spend time abroad have been explored at a special workshop on the subject in Paris. The...
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Grant winners - 8 May 2014
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Dmitriy RumyninInstitution: University of WarwickValue: 拢152,563Hecke algebras and Kac-Moody groups: representations, lattices and...
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Duncan Dallas, 1940-2014
A man who revolutionised public engagement with science has died
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Q&A with Dame Nicola Brewer
We speak to the new vice-provost (international) at University College London, a former High Commissioner to South Africa
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THE Scholarly Web - 8 May 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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News in brief - 8 May 2014
Teacher trainingGove announces reviewMichael Gove, the education secretary, has announced an independent review of the quality and effectiveness of initial teacher training courses. The review, which...
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Different corners
Robert Gellately鈥檚 review of Richard Evans鈥 Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History (Books, March) suggests that the author鈥檚 critique of the 鈥渨hat if鈥 genre throws the baby out with the bathwater...
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Needling your neighbour
Thanks to William Poole for his useful review (Books, 24 April) of Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science by Richard Yeo.I now realise that Thomas Harrison鈥檚 arca studiorum, 鈥渁 kind of...
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Tax returns
Australia invented the 鈥渋ncome contingent contribution鈥 concept, a much better way to see the student contribution.When the Dearing Committee first debated the principle in 1996, the lifetime...
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Taking the crash on board
I write in response to the article 鈥淢anchester students take on economics curriculum in report鈥, News, www.timeshighereducation.co.uk, 22 April, and from the vantage point of having just organised a...