Student Experience Survey 2017: Bright stars of Northern Ireland
Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University are making huge gains in the student satisfaction stakes, writes Seth Jacobson
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Student Experience Survey 2017: Build the facilities and the students will come
New kid on the block, Harper Adams University, outshines established institutions with its great teaching and outstanding amenities, finds Jack Grove
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Student Experience Survey 2017: The shape of things to come in higher education
What will the landscape look like 10 years from now? David Matthews examines the demographic trends, social shifts and technological advances that look set to shape the sector’s future
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Grant winners – 23 March 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection, by Evelleen Richards
Book of the week: Simon Underdown enjoys a stunning view of Darwin at work on his less celebrated classic
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Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History and Memory, by Enzo Traverso
A wide-ranging study is triumphant in plumbing the depths of socialist despair, says Fred Inglis
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Irresistible: Why We Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and Watching, by Adam Alter
Is a study of addiction everything that we need it to be in a post-truth, alternative facts era? asks Tara Brabazon
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New and noteworthy – 23 March 2017
Why you need a ‘No’ hat, rethinking the economic wisdom of ‘necessary luxuries’, restoring financial power to the people, and lessons learned from teaching prisoners to read
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President turns MIT’s research might to study of how people learn
‘If we don’t know how we learn, how on earth do we know how to teach?’ says L. Rafael Reif, who tells Ellie Bothwell how the research giant is working to improve teaching practice