Learning from academic peer review to improve student feedback
The thorough and clear feedback that is best practice in peer reviewing an academic article should be extended to student assessment, argues Claire TaylorÂ
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US universities urged to join global quality debate
Colleges warned their declines in foreign students could worsen if they do not pay more attention to global quality deliberations
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Finns join journal subscription boycott movement
Negotiations with Taylor & Francis collapse over cost as journal outages spread across Europe
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Reflections on REF main panel B’s input into REF 2021
Taking a more flexible approach to output numbers is a welcome development for REF 2021 but the challenge remains to use metrics in a responsible way, says David PriceÂ
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Australia’s private providers fume at regulatory delays
Independent colleges ‘defined by what they’re not, not what they are’, Teqsa report says
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New English minister signals end to ‘needless’ university bashing
Striking a different tone from that of his predecessor, Chris Skidmore says value for money is about ‘much more’ than graduate salary figures
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Small town or London universities ‘may be allowed to go under’
Sussex vice-chancellor predicts ‘variable’ approach to regulatory support for vulnerable institutions
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Visual ‘profiles’ backed to avoid misuse of single-point metrics
Report from Clarivate Analytics’ Institute for Scientific Information suggests more nuanced ways of analysing research impact
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Female students in ‘sexy’ clothes seen as less competent
Dressing ‘sexy’ can negatively influence perceptions of competence, effort and performance, finds new study
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Scholars divulge their biggest mistakes
Six scholars learn the career and life lessons of their greatest academic missteps
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Appointments – 31 January 2019
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Art and Suffrage: A Biographical Dictionary of Suffrage Artists, by Elizabeth Crawford
Creativity was key to the women’s movement, as June Purvis finds in a valuable new sourcebook
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The Children of Harvey Milk: How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World, by Andrew Reynolds
Discourse has been altered only by minority groups being ‘at the table’, something enabled by ground-breaking activists, writes Charlie Pullen
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What are you reading? – 31 January 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practice, by Catherine Russell
Davina Quinlivan on how film-makers recycle images to reimagine the past and the future