REF could penalise those working across disciplines
Study says interdisciplinary researchers might lose out as their work is less cited, writes Zoe Corbyn
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Academic A levels 'best preparation'
Admissions tutors favour GCE students - and they do better at university, writes Rebecca Attwood
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Tories promise to make practical route work
£6K awards will help 5,000 apprentices enter higher education. Melanie Newman reports
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Flexible learning is the way to widen access, meeting told
US-style community-orientated learning rather than reform of university admission policies is the key to broadening access to higher education, the Shadow Minister for Vocational Education told the...
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For whom the web Knols
Tara Brabazon on competing visions of ownership, content and scholarship
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Employees’ statutory rights to time off to undertake public service duties
In June 2008, we reported on the rights and obligations of employers in relation to Army reservists. However, this is just one area in which a right to time off from work may arise. This article...
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Top institutions in immunology based on impact
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 1998 through 30 June 2008
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The long and the short of it
Britain's one-year masters is proving a sticking point in the Bologna Process, but the equivalence issue is raising difficult questions about length of study for other degrees, too. Hannah Fearn...
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A passion for teaching - Margins aren't meant to be written in
Forget those scrawled annotations: Peter Barry believes that students learn far more about how to craft an essay from a few minutes of face-to-face dialogue
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Antimatter and antipasta at the anti-conference
John Gilbey was on first-name terms with Nobel laureates and all the other 'campers' at Science Foo, a three-day intellectual free-for-all that left him exhausted but elated
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2 October 2008
Look out, America - The Bologna Process is set to make the UK and Europe into a higher education superpower
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Bright life clouded by dark matter
Einstein was no saint, but nor was he a womanising, avaricious bumbler, says Graham Farmelo
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Faeries, Bears and Leathermen: Men in Community Queering the Masculine
A homosexual is not a homosexual is not a homosexual: the idea of a homosexual - once useful - is now profoundly unhelpful. The study of lesbian and gay lives in all their richness and pluralities...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Heffers, cambridge
1 Road to Success: A Career Manual by Alexander R. Margulis Academic Press, £18.99 ISBN 97801237058782 Economics: A Very Short Introduction by Partha Dasgupta Oxford University Press, £6.99 ISBN...