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Motivational motive

If Graham Gibbs is right that class contact hours are less important than independent study hours (“Watched clocks and scholarly toil”, Teaching intelligence, 14 March), then higher education...

Driven potty

I have just searched the Google Play Store for a THE app and the top suggestion was Potty Time (which includes eight new ways to celebrate your child’s potty training successes).I’m still teasing out...

Mary Evans, Matthew Feldman, June Purvis, Sara Read and Felix Rosch...

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The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics by James O’Brien

Stephen Wade on the accurate contemporary science behind the Holmesian investigations

Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina by Vincanne Adams

Kevin Fox Gotham on the negative consequences of privatised disaster services and aid work

Academic Armageddon: An Irish Requiem for Higher Education by Mary Gallagher

Sue Norton on the difficult days ahead for Ireland’s academy as bureaucracy and consumerisation seem set to increase

Characters Of Blood: Black Heroism In The Transatlantic Imagination by Céleste-Marie Bernier

Catherine Clinton on a creative and contextual analysis of the visual art of enslaved blacks

Murdoch’s Politics: How One Man’s Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes Our World by David McKnight

Ivor Gaber on what motivates Rupert Murdoch

Piled Higher and Deeper by Jorge Cham - 21 March 2013

German academics boycott CHE ranking system

Scholars tired of ‘constant’ data requests. Frances Mechan Schmidt writes

Tech transfer blighted by 'blundering jobsworths'

Master of Trinity says technology transfer offices can be more hindrance than help

ELQ loans could turn part-time rhetoric into reality

Ministers advised to reverse ban on second degree funding

Hefce unveils allocations for 2013-14

Further shrinkage as funding reforms take fuller effect

Life after Aimhigher: access from the ground level

The sector should take the lead on the mooted national widening-participation framework, says Graeme Atherton

QAA queries UK's most international degree course

Foreign students struggle to gain recognition for Oxford Brookes’ distance-learning qualification.