Master and commander
Andy Westwood salutes Sir Alan Langlands, a steady hand guiding the sector through the stormy waters of frenzied coalition reform
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Principals for hire
News that the University of Warwick and Queen Mary, University of London are to share lecturers has prompted an exciting new experiment in collaboration by our own university.In what Jamie Targett,...
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Leader: Set straight by a painful setback
Sometimes an unpleasant knock can be useful in forcing people to rethink the most appropriate way ahead
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Research Intelligence - The biggest and the best, for everyone
Pan-European network allows access to national cutting-edge biology facilities. Paul Jump reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Drawing insights from the depths of disaster
A century on, the Titanic’s tragic tale remains a valuable focus for teaching. Jon Marcus writes
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The week in higher education
• Well done to the University of Manchester for clinching this year's University Challenge title. It is the third time a Manchester team has won the television quiz show in seven years, noted Rebecca...
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From Where I Sit - Appliance of the dismal science
Anyone who has studied or taught economics is aware of the highly theoretical nature of the subject. For some, this is its appeal. Indeed, my old professor in the discipline once told me that the...
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Odds and quads
This 19th-century stuffed cyclopic piglet and plaster cast of a rattlesnake - brought to Scotland by Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1904 - are among the strange and sometimes shocking natural...
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Appointments
Washington University in St LouisJennifer R. SmithThe future dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St Louis wants to use her elected position to "promote the education...
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Get back in the saddle
In the academy all must have prizes, but nothing breeds success like failure. Steven Schwartz argues that students gain more from blind alleys than from victory processions, as failure engenders the...
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Children's Lives
Hugh Cunningham ponders our enduring nostalgia for childhoods past and asks if we still yearn for a Romantic ideal
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Government demands that separate work and values discredit us
To be ethical, a funding system must recognise that what universities do supports the common good, argues Thomas Docherty
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Sorbonne année
Howard Davies on league tables and rebranding exercises
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The spaces between
A fleeting glimpse of a renowned soprano ignited Peter Crisp's lifelong love of song cycles and lieder...but left him pining for an overture