Swansea’s tough REF plans provoke disquiet
Staff complain over ‘arbitrary’ yardstick and teaching-only threat
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Nancy Rothwell on switching to a new field of research
Moving to a different sphere of study can be a fruitful - and liberating - experience
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Seamus Heaney: great poet, inspirational teacher
David Gewanter recalls the time he spent studying under the late poet
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Research councils claw back millions for late reporting
FoI request shows huge variations within RCUK over the extent of sanctions
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Is your university reading your emails?
The policies and realities of monitoring correspondence may vary, but the ethical implications are always significant
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Realpolitik: A Fulbright fellow in Astana
How did David Mould end up teaching journalism in Kazakhstan’s frozen capital? He was a political pawn, he says
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Blue-chip firms favour graduates whose faces fit
Old boy network still plays vital role in securing top posts, research shows
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UCU homes in on widespread use of zero-hours deals
Union uncovers extent of casualised contracts in sector
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Failure analysis
The philosopher and educational reformer John Dewey argued in 1933 that “failure is not mere failure. It is instructive.” But 80 years later, we still don’t know a lot about why things fail in higher...
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Academics don’t need to write the courses they teach
Harvard Business School’s teaching model offers consistency but also allows unscripted ‘discovery’, explain Michel Anteby and Caitlin Anderson
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So How’s the Family? and Other Essays, by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Stina Lyon on the personal and emotional costs of a global marketplace where everything’s for sale
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Rising from ashes of market conflagration
In her brave condemnation of what has happened to higher education in recent years (“Free market principles have changed (and ruined) the academy”, Opinion, 22 August), Alessandra Lopez y Royo surely...
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Failure is instructive
The philosopher and educational reformer John Dewey argued in 1933 that “failure is not mere failure. It is instructive.” But 80 years later, we still don’t know a lot about why things fail in higher...
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Analysis - Wow, it feels like you are actually there
UK institutions use online open days to pitch to potential students overseas. Chris Parr writes
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Alma Mater Index: Global Executives 2013
List of CEO alumni favours North American and European rivals