A rose is a rose is a rose
Once again, serious conflict has broken out on campus over our university’s proposed submissions to the ߣߣÊÓƵ Leadership and Management Awards.Regular readers of The Poppletonian may...
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Grant winners - 6 February 2014
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Luke RendellInstitution: University of St AndrewsValue: £119,556Developing a data-driven multi-agent model for studying humpback whale...
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University of Gloucestershire invites in for‑profit firm
University mulls joint venture with INTO to boost business school
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Legal protection diluted for outsourced staff
Change in Tupe law means employers can offer new terms one year after move
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Fees impact on part-time enrolments
Part-time enrolments at universities in England have been hit hard since the introduction of higher tuition fees, fresh data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency suggest
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Berkeley: a radical home for Hitler’s émigrés
An exhibition reveals the impact of refugee scholars on the University of California flagship
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You’re the Expert: scholars explain their work in a comic turn
Comedians and academics aim to make scientific principles exciting and fun
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Modern doctoral training is ‘closer’ to employers’ needs
Employers unaware of how doctorates have broadened to prepare postgraduates for work
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Should dropouts trade up?
A remarkably large proportion of university students in Germany do not complete their studies – 30 per cent, according to Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, which describes itself as “the...
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The lecture: more than the sum of its parts
Sally Feldman dissects the benefits of an old-fashioned but pedagogically rich practice
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Review: Dallas Buyers Club
The tale of an unsaintly Aids sufferer’s rebellion sidesteps sentimentality and hints at hope, says Duncan Wu
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James Stevens Curl, Stephen Halliday, Michael Reiss, Peter J. Smith and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame, by David J. Blacker
Gerald Taylor Aiken concurs with a call to protect higher education as a universal and public good
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Will China Dominate the 21st Century?, by Jonathan Fenby
Jonathan Mirsky on a merciless dissection of a seemingly unstoppable country
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Postcolonial Manchester: Diaspora Space and the Devolution of Literary Culture, by Lynne Pearce, Corinne Fowler and Robert Crawshaw
Claire Chambers on how the colonial legacy is reflected in Mancunian writers’ work