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Too small to fail
Tim Birkhead ponders the optimal size and location of the conference venue
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Research Intelligence - When every little helps
Amid tight budgets and uncertainty, Nerc's head looks to cost efficiency to protect its mission. Paul Jump reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Age of retirement: American payouts target tenured staff
Cash-strapped states offer golden goodbyes to slash the wage bill. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
Revenge is a dish best served cold, not hot and steaming. But the adage appears to have been ignored by a maths professor at California State University, Northridge, who is accused of urinating on a...
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The Pick - Made in Northampton
Every marriage is different
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Reynolds Price, 1933-2011
The best-selling author Reynolds Price was originally appointed to a three-year teaching post at Duke University in 1958, a contract that had "no chance of being extended".He died last month after 53...
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We will stand together to defend education
The academy is under unprecedented threat in the United Kingdom. The Government is cutting support for teaching in higher education by 80 per cent, and forcing universities to charge up to £9,000 per...
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One size will not fit all (1 of 3)
The Higher Education Academy's consultation on the UK Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning recently closed. The review was undertaken in part because take-up of the...
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One size will not fit all (2 of 3)
Two strengths of the original standards framework were its brevity and its ability to be implemented in differing higher education contexts. The proposed changes to the standard descriptors imply a...
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One size will not fit all (3 of 3)
The HEA's consultation on a UK Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning has offered a valuable opportunity to reflect on how universities support their lecturers'...
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Now, concentrate (1 of 2)
In your letters page last week, correspondents reviled me as "elitist" ("Elitist pipe dream", January). At least it makes a change from being reviled as a lefty.I wish the writers had taken the...
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Now, concentrate (2 of 2)
Apropos the discussion of research concentration, Martin McQuillan and his colleagues from Kingston University claim to be on a "greater mission: social inclusion" with a concern for the "...
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Who should benefit?
It is possible that the haemorrhaging of funding to European Union students studying in the UK arises because of the way in which we describe the student support system ("Fees shift could leave UK '...