Caltech: secrets of the world’s number one university | Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn | Academic assessment gone mad
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Friday 28th February 2014
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WORLD IN FOCUS:
Caltech: secrets of the world’s number one university
How does a tiny institution create such outsized impact?		 THE Best University Workplace Survey
25 most international universities FEATURE:
Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn
Could England force a similar reversal?
Howard Hotson asks.
CONTENT_REGION
OPINION:
Academic assessment
gone mad
Has accountability to stakeholders got out of hand? Steven Ward imagines an Orwellian world of over-assessment.		 Broken academic system
Fortunes of different disciplines FEATURE:
The REF: how was it for you?
Research heads and other university staff on the burdens of submitting to the inaugural research excellence framework.
NEWS:
Physicists are more intelligent than social scientists,
paper says
Social scientists are of ‘lower average intelligence’ than those in natural sciences – at least at elite universities, authors argue.		 Sheffield v-c
Moocs NEWS:
6 trends that will accelerate the adoption of technology in higher education
We take a look at the six “key trends” picked out in the NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Higher Education Edition.
FEATURE:
Do PhD supervisors make the grade?
Poor theses often betray inexpert supervision, say external examiners David Alexander and Ian Davis.		 Student numbers game
UK visa policy PEOPLE:
HE & me: THE Q&A with
Sir Patrick Stewart
We speak to the actor and chancellor of the University of Huddersfield.
NEWS:
Rollback of post-study work rules mooted
Meeting at Treasury hints at moves to repair visa policy’s harm to universities.		 Sherlock Holmes
Freedom of Information requests OPINION:
Graduate teaching assistants have been left behind by all
Striking academics call for better pay, but the PhD students who support their work are suffering even more, Fern Riddell says.
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