Travesty in the UUK
As Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, so eloquently put it on BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions? recently: if Universities UK had replaced the word “gender” with “race”, it would never have even...
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Admission not impossible
My recent article on conducting field research in Rwanda (“The price of admission”, 28 November) generated two critical responses in these pages – an article by Erin Jessee (“Subtle as foxes for prey...
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Legal allies in student David v Goliath battles
As a barrister, I occasionally represent clients who elicit little public sympathy. The “cab rank” rule requires barristers to accept a case even if they disapprove of the client or cause. Yet when I...
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The year in higher education quotes 2013
Christmas is over and winter’s grip will tighten in the grey weeks ahead. The only crumb of consolation offered by the New Year is the chance to take stock of the past 12 months and to learn some...
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Students’ unions hit back at group monitoring campus extremism
Student Rights’ agenda questioned by LSE, Birkbeck, Goldsmiths unions
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Decline in the number of animals used in research in the UK
The European Commission released the latest data on the number of animals used in science last month. Across Europe, researchers used 11.5 million animals in 2011, down half a million compared with...
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Postdocs’ career choices swayed by personal values
Research scientists would prefer to align work with own values, study reveals
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Soft Estate: Edward Chell project on landscapes around motorways
The neglected, inaccessible land beside arterial routes is the subject of an exhibition and book
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Battle of wits with the apparatchiks
Historian Sheila Fitzpatrick discusses life and scholarly work at the heart of the Soviet system
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West Bank balance
On 18 November, Brandeis University, a liberal arts college in Massachusetts that describes itself as the only non-sectarian Jewish-sponsored institution in the US, suspended its partnership with Al-...
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THE Scholarly Web - 2 January 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Q&A with Simon Marginson
We speak to the professor of international higher education at the Institute of Education, University of London. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Rulan Chao Pian, 1922-2013
A leading academic expert on Chinese music has died
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The gift excellence framework
Kevin Fong’s method to raise present standards
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Sherlock Holmes: a very British superhero
The 21st-century reincarnation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation is our version of Superman, argues Fern Riddell