The week in higher education – 26 November 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Lisa Mckenzie on the day she was arrested
Anarchist academic reflects on what her recent brush with the law says about threats to academic freedom
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The Francis Crick Institute: science and serendipity
Is the biomedical research facility dubbed ‘Sir Paul’s cathedral’ built on sound foundations?
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Laurie Taylor – 26 November 2015
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Jeremy Corbyn: monstering by degrees
The media’s sneering attacks on the Labour leader’s limited tertiary study fail to recognise that academic qualifications are not political science, says Martin McQuillan
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A government’s word is its bond
When the government introduced new policies for higher education fees, it ignored warnings that repayment rates would be much lower than it had claimed. Now that it has acknowledged those lower...
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What beast is this?
Your anonymous correspondent’s account of reviewing for the research excellence framework substantially reflects my own experience as a panellist in 2008 who was offered the chance to be renominated...
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Be specific
There are plenty of things that drive me nuts about the higher education sphere and its planetary system, but one of the worst offenders is the contention by “employers” that students lack “skills”...
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Specialists required
While Richard Black may be correct that good research and good teaching can go together, they often do not (“Have universities really neglected teaching?”, Opinion, 19 November). Few lecturers can...