ߣߣƵ Awards 2013
Higher education institutions are crucibles of innovation - and not just in those areas of research that grab the headlines. Recognising the creativity and quality to be found throughout universities...
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Grant winners
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Services and Delivery Research programmeAward winner: Sarah ByfordInstitution: King’s College LondonValue: £675,578The cost and cost-effectiveness of...
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Awards and promotions
Royal College of ArtJordan Baseman“If you had told me when I was 22 and graduating from art school that I would spend almost my entire adult life working in art schools I wouldn’t have believed you...
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Obituary - George Watson
A maverick English don who often contributed to ߣߣƵ has died.George Watson was born into a Queensland farming family in ߣߣƵ on 13 October 19 and educated at Brisbane Boys’...
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Michel Anteby and Caitlin Anderson on Harvard Business School’s willingness to go off script
Harvard Business School’s teaching model offers consistency but also allows unscripted ‘discovery’, explain Michel Anteby and Caitlin Anderson
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto - L’esprit de l’escalier
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on two undergraduates’ stairways to heaven
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Letters
Rising from ashes of market conflagrationIn her brave condemnation of what has happened to higher education in recent years (“Free market principles have changed (and ruined) the academy”, Opinion,...
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Scenic routes
The majority of academics tend to focus on a particular area of research but, as Nancy Rothwell explains, switching to a new sphere of study can be a fruitful - and liberating - experience
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Frozen (political) pawn
How did David Mould end up teaching journalism in Kazakhstan’s frozen capital as a Fulbright fellow? He was a political pawn, he says, just like the (often absent) young people he taught
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The Work of Revision, by Hannah Sullivan
David Gewanter on the Modernist urge to edit
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A World of Excesses: Online Games and Excessive Playing, by Faltin Karlsen
Daria Kuss is impressed with a series of interviews that shed light on the medicalisation of gaming problems
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Victoria’s Madmen: Revolution and Alienation, by Clive Bloom
June Purvis is intrigued by an account of those who swam against the tide in an age of conformity and religious piety
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Careworn was made to care
Stina Lyon lauds a major theorist’s look at a global marketplace where everything’s for sale
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