Gender segregation row: UUK publishes legal advice
Universities UK has published legal advice which backs its controversial guidance on the segregation of men and women at campus events.
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Student loans guardians savaged by Hodge
The governmentās claim it can fully fund extra student places by selling loans is āwrongā, according to the MP in charge of examining public accounts.
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THE podcast: 12 December 2013 issue review
Download the podcastThe removal of the student number cap in England, the death of Nelson Mandela, and our interview with master of St Benetās Oxford hall, Werner Jeanrond, are all up for discussion...
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Neuroscientist Thelma Lovick wins tribunal victory over Birmingham
Judgment says university āinadequately investigatedā misconduct case
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Beware ābrain-based learningā
Enthusiasm for āneuroeducationā risks blinding people to its potentially limited efficacy, argues Steven Rose
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Willetts astonished by elite reaction to expansion
Russell Group critical of abolition of student numbers cap
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The Gods of Olympus: A History, by Barbara Graziosi
Susan Deacy on true immortality
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News in brief - 12 December 2013
AustraliaOppositional positionCuts of A$2.3 billion (Ā£1.3Ā billion) to Australian universities planned by Labor when in government are unlikely to go through after the party, now in opposition,...
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Art and science: ātwo culturesā with shared values
Forcing students to choose sides leaves them, and society, poorer, says Christopher Bigsby
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Laurence Coupe, Richard Joyner, R. C. Richardson, John Shand and David Shotter...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Eeny, meeny, minyā¦
My very good friend Steve Smith is reported as saying that only three people understand the resource accounting and budgeting charge and two of them are mad (āThat sinkhole feelingā, Leader, 28Ā ...
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Dance off, priced out
I read āMorris minersā with concern (CampusĀ round-up, 28 November). There may be a number of reasons why morris dancing is considered unfashionable and perhaps is dying out. Practices and...
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Massaging the feedback
I note that a number of articles and opinion pieces in THE in recent months have dealt with the value (or lack thereof) of student feedback/evaluation questionnaires.Many years ago, I learned how...
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Credit rating agencies
Sir David Watsonās report for the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education is right: there is much work to be done if credit transfer is to become widely used to support lifelong learning in the UK...
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Cops off campus
We the undersigned unreservedly condemn the escalating use of police violence against peaceful protest at the University of London (News, 6Ā December).On 4 December, students were violently evicted...