Plantation ‘poppadoms’ on digital menu, at last
Fire-damaged 17th-century survey of Northern Ireland unlocked at last. Matthew Reisz reports
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Occupied thoughts in diary form
Sheffield film to draw on late academic’s first-hand account of occupied Paris. Matthew Reisz reports
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ߣߣƵTesting times for TeqsaߣߣƵ’s new higher education regulator faces a test of its powers after it emerged that two private institutions have challenged some of its decisions. Stott’s...
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Let’s give it another year, says Delhi
V-c points to structural reform’s intellectual and vocational benefits. John Morgan reports
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Copy that: it would be an honour
The first step in tackling plagiarism in Japan is making students understand what it is, as it is a Western concept that does not fit well within Asian culture. To describe it, the Japanese word...
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IntoUniversity: an aptly named charity
Educational charity in the vanguard of university outreach is getting results. Jack Grove reports
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Research intelligence - One hundred years of gratitude for the MRC
A century on, MRC has captured the public’s heart and the state’s wallet. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Grant winners
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Karen PolizziInstitution: Imperial College LondonValue: £108,160How does yeast Golgi organisation contribute to protein glycosylation?...
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THE Scholarly Web - Consumers v producers
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Awards and promotions
Aston UniversitySimon GreenThe new executive dean of Aston University’s School of Languages and Social Sciences, Simon Green, said that it was a “huge privilege” to take on the role, while noting the...
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Obituary - Sir Patrick Nairne
A distinguished civil servant who went on to become the second master of St Catherine’s College, Oxford and the second chancellor of the University of Essex has died.Patrick Nairne was born into a...
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Leader - Fair-weather friends of fair access
Failure to evaluate the impact of widening participation funding - and to fight for its retention - has left it vulnerable to the axe
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Martin McQuillan warns that earnings data by place and course could become the destroyer of academic worlds
Martin McQuillan on graduate earnings by subject and institution: the Manhattan Project for the English sector?
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Aston is setting the standard for gender equality in the sector, argues Dame Julia King
Dame Julia King’s institution is tackling gender inequality - it is high time that the rest of the sector followed suit, she argues
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Open access will mean journals closing because there’s no such thing as a free lunch, argues Richard Hoyle
Open-access advocates are utopian thinkers whose ideas work only if you ignore the costs of journal publishing, argues Richard Hoyle