Sussex outsourcing opposition grows
Academic opposition to outsourcing at the University of Sussex is building, with staff from ten schools, departments and research centres publishing statements supporting protests at the institution.
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Count the spin outs that win out, says chief science adviser
Ensuring that knowledge translates into growth will be among the priorities the incoming government chief scientific adviser Mark Walport has set himself for the next five years.
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THE podcast: Anthony Forster
Anthony Forster, University of Essex vice-chancellorPodcast Powered By PodbeanUniversity of Essex vice-chancellor Anthony Forster joins reporter Chris Parr to discuss the university’s future, his own...
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Prospero’s Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater by Seth Lerer
The fictions and pretences of theatrical performance form the lens for this fascinating and highly personal memoir of fraught and dysfunctional family relationships. Characteristically for a work...
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Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet and How We Live by Marlene Zuk
As someone who suffers recurrent palaeofantasies (don’t ask), I’m a sucker for this book’s title. The idea of exploring the strange things that 21st-century Homo sapiens gets up to in the name of...
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America’s Assembly Line by David E. Nye
Claimed to have been invented a century ago, the assembly line has long since lost the lustre it once enjoyed. Henry Ford is commonly credited with this remarkable achievement in 1913, but fellow...
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Fault lines of enquiry
Luciana Astiz on how seismology evolved from the combined observations of scientists and citizens
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LSE students hit back over North Korea trip
Students at the London School of Economics who were on a controversial visit to North Korea with undercover BBC journalists have hit out at the university, saying it has placed them in greater danger...
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Poorest pupils ‘could be nudged to apply to university’
School pupils from poorer backgrounds could be contacted by the government to nudge them towards applying to university if they get good GCSE grades, David Willetts has said.
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THE podcast: 18 April 2013 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanThe BBC’s North Korea Panorama documentary, the financial threats facing universities, and fears that a two-tier PhD system is developing all feature on this Times Higher...
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18 April 2013
Stay in control - Insider’s guide to dangers around the bend
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BBC subterfuge casts long shadow
Academics count the costs of Panorama’s North Korea exposé
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Hefce boss: NUS ‘played blinder’ over Met visa crisis
Legal challenge helped save overseas students from deportation
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Typically men: gender gap persists in funding success rates
A gender gap in researchers’ funding successes persists across Europe
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Protecting science will be Herculean labour
UUK chief looks to impact to save budget from Augean economy