IUSS reaction: undergraduate education has changed, let’s accept it and move on
The question is not whether standards have fallen but rather whether we have the right standards for what we are trying to achieve, says Bob Brecher
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Fugitive postgraduate is expelled
Erich Kofmel, who skipped bail and fled country, gets the boot from Sussex. Melanie Newman reports
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Report points the finger at London Met
KPMG blames institution for student-data inaccuracies and raises spectre of further Hefce action. Melanie Newman reports
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Marginal dip in student satisfaction
But NSS 2009 shows slight rise in assessment and feedback rating. Hannah Fearn reports
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I think critically, therefore I am
Teaching students to read and understand a text properly is essential to their intellectual survival in a complex world, says Linda Elder
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Book of the week: Punishing the Poor
Louise Hardwick on the imbalance in the US social funding see-saw
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The Marvelous Hairy Girls
A family suffering an unusual condition and their experience of their world intrigues Peter J. Smith
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Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics
Three key assumptions underpin the collection of essays that editors Glyn Davis and Gary Needham have brought together. The first is that people watch television (a perfectly reasonable assumption,...
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The Canon: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male/Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. By Alfred Kinsey (with Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin and Paul Gebhard)
Alfred Kinsey was a taxonomist obsessed. Having already made his mark in the study of gall wasps, he later turned to the study of human sexual behaviour after being asked to teach a marriage guidance...
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Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life
Jo-Ann Wallace finds that a lack of personal detail clouds an otherwise valuable biography
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Pavlov's Dogs and Schrödinger's Cat: Scenes from the Living Laboratory
Alba, an albino bunny born in February 2000 at France's National Institute for Agronomic Research, had an unusual trait along with her pink eyes and white fur. Thanks to the addition of a gene for...
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Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia
The 'engineers of human souls' occupied a unique role in the Soviet Union, finds Harold Shukman
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ARTS AND DESIGN- Public Speaking in the City: Debating and Shaping the Urban ExperienceBy Janet Stewart, director, visual culture masters programme, University of Aberdeen. Palgrave Macmillan, £55.00...
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Overseas briefing
AustraliaPerformance 'compact' unveiledThe Australian Government is to tie teaching and research performance to negotiated "compact agreements" with universities in an effort to encourage distinct...
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U-Map if you want to, but critics aren't convinced
Some fear that Europe-wide university classification will hamstring institutions. Phil Baty reports