Huge variation in graduate teaching assistants鈥 pay
Survey finds earnings fluctuate by department and wages fail to reflect hours worked
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Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity, by Prue Shaw
Elena Lombardi lauds a persuasive invitation to everyone yet to be beguiled by the Divine Comedy
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London Met told to act or face 鈥榚xtreme vulnerability鈥
University warned of 鈥榩attern of decline鈥 amid student recruitment problems
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World in brief - 24 April 2014
United StatesASA鈥檚 Israel boycott boosts membershipThe American Studies Association, an organisation that promotes the study of American culture and history, has increased its membership by more than...
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Sigbert Prais, 1928-2014
An economist who specialised in looking at the causes of low productivity in the UK has died
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Q&A with Baroness Scotland of Asthal
We speak to the chancellor of the University of Greenwich
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A premier notion
Georgina Edsel, Poppleton University鈥檚 deputy head of brand management (鈥淣ew name for 鈥楤ottom Russellers鈥欌娾, The Poppletonian, 17聽April) is definitely thinking along the right lines in proposing a...
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A lesson worth learning
It is useful to learn from Hazel Christie鈥檚 thoughtful review of Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III and Mark A. McDaniel (Books, 3 April) that...
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Spurring social change
Malcolm Gillies (鈥淲edding toast鈥, Opinion, 3聽April) is prudent to emphasise the fact that discrimination is still alive and kicking in our universities.However, we must remember that we live in a...
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Global STEM students
I am delighted that the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has called on the government to make substantial changes to UK migration policy to reverse the declining trend in international...
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Cold spot?
I was surprised and disappointed to hear that David Willetts, the universities and science minister, labelled Yeovil an 鈥渙bvious cold spot鈥 for higher education in a speech to the Universities UK...
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Transforming the tariff
Ucas points have served us well for more than 10 years. The tariff helps universities to attract and make offers to the widest possible range of students, and the inclusion of the average entry...
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Refusing to recognise market is of no use
Simon Marginson writes interestingly as ever (鈥淭here鈥檚 still no such thing as a higher education market鈥, Opinion, 10聽April), here arguing that UK higher education does not (and probably should not...
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Grant winners - 24 April 2014
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSocial sciencesAward winner: David Ceri JonesInstitution: Aberystwyth UniversityValue: 拢115,5George Whitefield (1714-70) and transatlantic ProtestantismAward...