THE podcast: 13 March 2014 issue review
Download the podcastFears that universities could lose their licences to recruit overseas students, the implications of zero-hours contracts for university employees, and the memoirs of John Carey...
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Sodexo-Times Higher Education University Lifestyle Survey 2014 results
How has debt from higher fees changed students?
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John Carey: the constant reader
Despite the snobbery of Oxford, a young literary scholar found the liberty to know and speak his mind
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Hanif Kureishi is wrong about students
There are talents in everyone, and it is the teacher’s role to develop them, says Will Buckingham
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Laughter of despair
How much political folly can we stomach? asks Christopher Bigsby
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Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love, by Simon Blackburn
Shahidha Bari delights in a lucid and graceful philosophical probing of self-consciousness
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Smile...you’re on NSS
We have endeavoured over the past few weeks to provide guidelines for all those academic members of staff who wish to influence the results of the current National Student Survey in a manner that...
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Discard the student caricatures
Negative assumptions about undergraduates distract from the debate over the responsibilities of educators, says Sarah Moore
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Zero hours, infinite anxiety
The perils of life on a contract with no guarantee of work
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World in brief - 13 March 2014
United StatesBright ideas on the blockA US university is to auction off some of its intellectual property licences. Successful bidders will obtain licensing rights to patents derived from research...
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Grant winners - 13 March 2014
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilResearch GrantsAward winner: Sue HartleyInstitution: University of YorkValue: £313,008Establishing biofumigation as a sustainable replacement to...
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THE Scholarly Web - 13 March 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Q&A with Michael Rosen
We speak to the professor of children’s literature at Goldsmiths, University of London
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Lance Davis, 1928-2014
A pioneering economic historian, whose work examined everything from banking and imperialism to whaling, has died