Leader: Little buy-in for market dreams
The government expected price sensitivity and consumer choice to drive down degree costs, but that's not happening
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Off Piste - Hive talking
Can useful parallels be drawn between apiculture and running a university? Ruth Farwell does both and isn’t sure, but one thing’s for certain: in both pursuits, losing your cool can sting
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From Where I Sit - Do the rite thing
I have just chaired my first doctoral defence in Sweden. About 50 people were in attendance - nearly filling the high-tiered old lecture hall where the defence was held - including the candidate's...
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Odds and quads
A Brown University chemistry class from the 1870s poses for a photograph on the steps of Rogers Hall (now the Salomon Center) as a professor, John Appleton, appears to watch current students leaving...
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Appointments
Leeds College of MusicCharlie SiemA rising classical music star has added an academic post at an English institution to his accolades. Virtuoso violinist Charlie Siem has been named visiting...
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26 July 2012
Kindred intellects - When the academy is in the blood
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Shakespeare: Staging the World
Peter J. Smith on a fresh view of the Bard via the prism of materiality and the playwright’s own socio-historical moment
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Having none of it
Life/work imbalance hits women harder. But despair not, says Sally Feldman
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Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Mascots, especially animals, play a big role in the multibillion-dollar business of US university marketing. Is it all just fun, asks David Mould, or have we gone too far in allowing corporatised...
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The family business
Matthew Reisz speaks to scholars with learned bloodlines about the inspirations, insights and rebellions that come with growing up in the very midst of the academy
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Competition forces groups and members to jockey for position
John Morgan assesses the impact of policy changes on mission group dynamics
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Tony Rich, 1954-2012
A registrar who was "admired and respected throughout the sector", and who played an important role in the professional development of non-academic staff, has died.Tony Rich was born in Norfolk on 26...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
University of SouthamptonA fantasy season with AI FCA team of academics plans to make its mark on the English Fantasy Football League next season with some help from artificial intelligence. PhD...
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Petition aims to save historic collection
A university has launched an online petition in a bid to persuade the Law Society not to break up a unique historic collection of about 5,000 manuscripts, early and rare ecclesiastical books and...