The week in higher education
• It seems not even vice-chancellors are impervious to the worldwide pop sensation that is Gangnam Style - the infectious chart-topping hit from South Korean artist PSY. An internet video of a flash...
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V-c spotting
They may (almost) all be white men in suits but that doesn’t mean that all vice-chancellors are the same, says Jack Grove. So which tribe does your v-c belong to?
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Leader: The self-censor may not hold
New-found restraint over research council applications should be praised but will it survive further funding cuts?
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From Where I Sit - No Act of philistinism
A recent issue of Time magazine was devoted to "Reinventing College". Several full-page advertisements celebrated "Milestones in the History of US Higher Education". Partially funded by the Bill and...
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The Particle at the End of the Universe: The Hunt for the Higgs and the Discovery of a New World
From postulation to discovery: Frank Close weighs up an accessible account of the Higgs boson
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Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccuping, and Beyond
It may be better in than out, but as social animals we can’t help ourselves, Tristan Bekinschtein finds
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After Art
We live “under the conditions of image saturation”, writes Yale University art historian David Joselit, who argues, after Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory, that images, “through the capacity for...
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Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain: The National War Aims Committee and Civilian Morale
Gradually, much of the scaffolding of the influential, but historically inaccurate, depiction of British opinion during the First World War, reflected in countless novels as well as older historical...
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Making the European Monetary Union
Kathleen McNamara on the technocracy that created the EMU - and its current malaise
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Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England: Gender and Self-Definition in an Emergent Writing Culture
Last year was the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible, with extravagant claims made about it being “the most important book written in the English language”. Such a...
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The Rise of China vs the Logic of Strategy
The rise of China has provoked such shock and awe that predictions of the time when the People’s Republic will dominate the world have become commonplace. Sustained strong economic growth, especially...
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Odds and quads
From 1981, the Women's Peace Camp at Greenham Common mounted a sustained non-violent protest against the first cruise missile site in the UK.
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Appointments
Royal Welsh College of Music and DramaSimon JonesThe Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama has appointed Simon Jones acting head of strings. The promotion of Dr Jones, currently head of the college'...
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Shiny happy periodicals
Read all about it: Fred Inglis on the horn-blowing and the hoopla, the cant and the can-do spirit of the glossy world of official university magazines
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India needs foreign aid for 'islands in sea of mediocrity'
New HE minister aims to unblock channels to openness. Joanna Sugden reports from New Delhi