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Animated reactionA music video created by an academic has won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Animation. The stop-motion film for the band Fossil Collective’s single Let it Go was made by...
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News in brief
ߣߣƵMinister has no time for impactThe ߣߣƵn education minister has said that measuring research impact is not necessarily a priority or a worthwhile endeavour. Kim Carr, who recently...
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Surrey proposed 2:1 target to assess staff
Plans were abandoned only after ‘extensive negotiations’ with union. Jack Grove reports
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Leader - Brand in glove
In India, the US, the UK and beyond, branding is an inescapable part of higher education, for good or ill
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Avril Goodwin, Joshua Gross, Dragana Obradovic, Brandy Schillace and Joanna Williams...
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Elizabeth’s Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen’s Court, by Anna Whitelock
Peter Gwyn seeks more interpretation in a biography of the Virgin Queen and her male favourites and Ladies of the Bedchamber
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The ‘I’ of Leadership: Strategies for Seeing, Being and Doing, by Nigel Nicholson
Jean Hartley on the qualities and insights necessary in leaders
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Postgraduate funding: Willetts is banking on it
Minister wants career development loan schemes to fill postgrad gap. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf, by Susan David Bernstein
Colin Higgins on Victorian women writers and poets who thrived, or not, in the atmosphere of the Round Reading Room
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Dubious punishment: Hefce's 'ultimate sanction' may prove empty threat
Critics doubt legality of regulatory framework’s disciplinary powers
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Hefce leadership search enters interview phase
Hefce interviews for chief executive post: will a woman get the nod at last? John Morgan reports
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Stern words for scholars in policy sphere
British Academy’s new president demands clarity and humility
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Gentlemen v Players
I am very puzzled that Geraldine Van Bueren thinks “an amateur event with no financial reward” is an argument that a sport is not elitist (“Making waves”, Opinion, 11 July). Amateurism at this level...