Ghost stories can inspire teaching tricks
Look to uncanny ghost walks for new ways to engage students in difficult topics, say four urban researchersÂ
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Failing better: How to live with academic rejection
Academics’ deep identification with their work means that the failure of a book proposal, grant application or promotion request can cut deeply. But in a competitive profession, such knock-backs are...
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Interview with Daniel Markovits
The Yale Law School professor discusses the ‘sham’ of meritocracy, the damage the idea causes and why elite universities are part of the problem
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Careers intelligence: why be a head of department?
Negative perceptions surround the head’s role, but those who have taken up the challenge speak of a range of benefits, write Navé Wald and Clinton Golding
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Superscoring standardised admission tests will supersize advantage
Allowing university applicants to retake specific sections of the ACT will aid only those able to afford tutors and multiple test fees, says Anthony P. Carnevale
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US universities see growing numbers of returning students
Too many institutions, however, don’t properly serve them, advocates warn
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Unconditional offer students ‘more likely to drop out’
OfS data analysis suggests that almost 200 students who dropped out may not have done if they had been given a conditional offer
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NCAA to let US student athletes earn outside money
US governing board bends as pressure builds after California showdown
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Racism against students ‘taken more seriously than staff abuse’
Equality and Human Rights Commission data show staff complaints take longer to investigate and are less likely to lead to redress
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Horizon Europe association hopefuls ‘out of time’ for 2021 start
UK and Switzerland risk missing out on beginning of €100 billion (£86 billion) programme, alongside potential newcomers Australia and Canada
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Lochlann Jain: anthropologist versus categories
Gender-fluid academic seeks to challenge the ways in which we carve up the world
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THE ‘Table of Tables’ 2020: Bath joins top 10
Cambridge leads combined results of three main UK university league tables for ninth year running
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Regulator puts two-thirds of providers on ‘enhanced monitoring’
England’s Office for Students also says 13 providers are in ‘representations process’ after being provisionally refused loans access
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The UK’s hostile monitoring regime poisoned my PhD
Constant checks on their presence and bureaucratic curbs on their movement leave international students feeling like security threats, says Alexander Mack
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Advising female students on how to avoid sexual assault is not victim blaming
If a Canadian programme’s success rates are replicated in the US, it must be adopted, says John Banzhaf