Norway’s quiet revolution
Linking human rights and education in a revised Constitution has huge implications for those training teachers, says Audrey Osler
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Mad, bad and dangerous to know: TV’s anti-heroes
From Walter White to Dexter Morgan, what lies behind our fascination with imperfect heroes? asks Murray Smith
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Campus close-up: University of Southampton
Web Science Institute aims to produce multidisciplinary research and graduates ready to play key roles in the digital economy
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Students can make governments fall, but not fees
South Korean students’ unions have been wholly ineffective in curbing tuition fee rises, paper finds
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Leviathan: an adventure in sound and space
An academic staging an immersive production of Moby-Dick discusses research and art
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Grant winners - 17 July 2014
The National Institute for Health Research, Royal Society, Medical Research Council, and more
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Susan Beth Horwitz, 1955-2014
A computer scientist whose research proved crucial in reducing crashes caused by bugs within the Windows operating system has died
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Q&A with Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea
We speak to the new chancellor of the University of Birmingham
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#ToughToTeach: readers reveal their pedagogical no-go zones
From Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics to promissory estoppel, conveying knowledge can be hard going at times
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Overseas branches serve it sunny side up
Christopher Bigsby on the pleasures and pitfalls of internationalisation
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Appointments - 17 July 2014
The latest higher education appointments
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Medics happiest with colleagues
Academics working in medicine, veterinary medicine and dentistry are more likely to enjoy working with their colleagues than those working in the arts and humanities
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Starter for £10K
I note that it is possible that the salaries of the most highly paid academics may be revealed (“High-earner salaries may be disclosed”, News, 10 July).Surely once achieved, those with the highest...
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TOEFL: tried and tested
I read with interest Karen Harris’ article “Degree-level study without language competency is absurd” (Opinion, 3 July).Harris incorrectly identifies which English language test featured in a recent...