Grant winners - 1 May 2014
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilResearch grantsAward winner: Colin TaylorInstitution: University of CambridgeValue: £450,901Functional properties of a mobile organelle...
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Wilfred Owen, by Guy Cuthbertson
Gary Day on a new biography that breathes some life into the war poet
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For-profit university’s first accounts reveal 'Premier League'-sized debt
University of Law also has a new Guernsey-based parent firm
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The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian, by Nancy J. Troy
Tracey Warr finds comedy and tragedy in the posthumous dissemination of an artist’s work
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Low PhD stipends are recruitment ‘time bomb’
Doctoral training centres report rise in overseas applicants as graduate salaries lure UK talent
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Universities must convert widening access into graduate jobs
Call for institutions to measure social mobility impact via graduates’ careers
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1 May 2014
Worth the risks - Animal researchers end their silence on their work
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News in brief - 1 May 2014
Scottish independenceHepi/THE essay competitionWriters with strong opinions on what Scottish independence might mean for higher education are invited to enter the Higher Education Policy Institute/...
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World in brief - 1 May 2014
United StatesIndian applicants up by one-thirdApplications to US graduate schools from India have risen dramatically in the past year, according to a new report. The Council of Graduate Schools, in...
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Ernesto Laclau, 1935-2014
A leading Argentine political theorist and advocate of “radical democracy”, long based at the University of Essex, has died
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Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
We speak to the former Children’s Laureate and next chancellor of the University of Roehampton
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THE Scholarly Web - 1 May 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Well versed
If you’re unsure where your head isfor jetting aroundIf you’re wasteful with millionsbut skimp over poundsIf discussion embarrasses you(it reveals your mistakes!)Urge pay restraint widelywhile you’re...
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Thinking not required
Hurrah for Rowan Williams (“No fooling about impact”, Opinion, 17 April). The one unifying factor of every degree should be critical analysis, training to think, bringing enlightenment to the masses...
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Academic Hunger Games
With hindsight, perhaps the legacy of the research excellence framework on all researchers has been distilled in the tribunal judgement “responsibility for allowing their own vanity and self-interest...