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Teaching REF would lead to time wasted ‘giving tuna sandwiches to assessors’
Edinburgh principal Sir Tim O’Shea warns such a system would distract from real mission
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Fifth of students at private college fail to show at classes
An investigation into a for-profit college by the UK’s quality watchdog has found that a fifth of students in a sample failed to show up to any classes at all, despite receiving public funding
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Number of Oxbridge graduates teaching at state schools doubles in a decade
Since 2003, the number of graduates from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge teaching at state schools has risen from 5,000 to 11,000
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Thelmas 2015 results announced
Universities celebrate at the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards
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Ulster to cut up to 210 jobs after budget slashed
Ulster University is to cut up to 210 jobs and lose around 1,200 student places to cope with a £8 million reduction in Northern Ireland’s higher education budget
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THE podcast: 18-24 June 2015 issue review
This week's issue discussed by the Times Higher Education team
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Graduate jobs market improving but skills shortage remains
‘Buoyant market’ leads to unfilled posts
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Driving After Class: Anxious Times in an American Suburb, by Rachel Heiman
SUVs but no Porsches: success is relative when keeping up with the Joneses, Jessi Streib finds
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Goebbels: A Biography, by Peter Longerich
A brilliant study of the narcissistic Nazi’s diaries offers fresh perspectives, says Robert Gellately
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The Ocean, the Bird and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry, by Helen Vendler
Elizabeth Greene lauds an eminent critic’s fine close reading of Wallace Stevens and others
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What are you reading? – 18 June 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present, by Anthony Pagden
Yvonne Sherratt on a study of how imperial history has been one of the most frequent and extensive elements of human experience
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Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine, by Paul A. Offit
Helen Bynum on a doctor who is gently but firmly arguing against those who are harming children’s health through their religion
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What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City, by Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly
Studies of library lending records are overdue, says Faye Hammill