Are questionable marketing claims slipping past the watchdogs?
The ASA and QAA may be too passive, argues study that found misleading claims in prospectuses
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23 January 2014
Sea change - Winners and losers in Australia’s uncapped student numbers race
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World in brief - 23 January 2014
United StatesStanford’s Steele heads to BerkeleyA highly ranked university in California has poached a senior academic from one of its nearest rivals. It was announced last week that Claude Steele, a...
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THE Scholarly Web - 23 January 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Q&A with Nick Wright
We speak to the pro vice‑chancellor for research and innovation at Newcastle University
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Reginald Foakes, 1923-2013
One of the leading Shakespearean scholars of his generation has died
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News in brief - 23 January 2014
Student recruitmentSalford revises ad-spend dataLast week Times Higher Education reported that the University of Salford had trebled its spending on marketing to prospective students between 2010-11...
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Grant winners - 23 January 2014
National Institute for Health ResearchPublic Health Research programmeAward winner: Helen ElseyInstitution: University of LeedsValue: £464,761Understanding the impacts of care farms on health and...
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Title holder supreme
Further to Richard M. S. Wilson’s letter (9 January) on the confusing plethora of titles adopted by UK universities to identify academic staff, it is worth remembering that the former colleges of...
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Burdensome language
What does it say about the status of teaching (and, by extension, students) in some universities when a news report refers to academics being “freed†from “the burden of teaching†and “protectedâ€...
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Digital humanities 2.0
I could not agree more with Geoffrey Crossick that the arts and humanities are “way behind†the sciences in the open access debate (“Digital age of opportunity for the monographâ€, News, 16 January)....
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Hitlerian evolution
Your reviewer of my book Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory (Books, 16Â January) might well secure an appointment with her optometrist.She claims that...
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Moocs: giving or gobbling?
Surprise, surprise: the turkeys vote against Christmas (“Higher education ‘hype cycle’ that can be both vicious and virtuousâ€, Opinion, 9 January; “Hits and myths: Moocs may be wonderful idea, but...
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Leaders need a solid inside knowledge
Re “Leading question: scholar or executive?â€, News, 16 January. There is a myth that top executives from one field do well in another. For example, it was thought that stuffy engineers were ill-...
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