New and noteworthy – 3 August 2017
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Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction, by Chris Thomas
Book of the week: Human actions have killed off some species but may be kick-starting new ones, writes Jules Pretty
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Laurie Taylor – 3 August 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Do universities actually equip students with the tools for tomorrow?
Universities claim to bestow on graduates the key to open the door to any job: critical thinking. But even if they do, are employers interested?
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V-c pay levels reflect impact of policy decisions
It is difficult to say whether the recent criticisms of vice-chancellors’ salaries by Jo Johnson, the universities minister, and Lord Adonis, the former education minister (“Who has final say on pay...
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Open to adaptation
In her opinion article “An open-access monograph dash could be disastrous” (27 July), Marilyn Deegan attacks a series of straw arguments about open access for books that have little basis in policy...
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Subject divergence
Whoever proposed the subject-level teaching excellence framework has little or no idea just how complex and varied a “subject” can be (“Subject-level TEF ‘bad for students’”, News, 27 July). Some...
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HEA standards
I was a member of the team that awarded the original senior fellowships of the Higher Education Academy. That proved to be a very challenging task, but it taught all those involved how difficult it...
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Crisis accounting
The “financial hole” that has been reported in the Universities Superannuation Scheme in no way corresponds to the health of the fund in the real world. Rather, it is the result of what a recent...
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ERC launches grants scheme for multiple principal investigators
Synergy Grants will be worth a total of €250 million but, when piloted in 2012 and 2013, success rates were under 3 per cent
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Trump administration targets affirmative action in admissions
Threat to sue universities with policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants ‘deeply disturbing’
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France’s scholarly MPs take clinical approach to policy
Academics who have become deputies for Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche! hope to tackle country’s problems with scientific method