It is the East, and Rising Sun is the new object of affection
Jack Grove reports from Tokyo on De Montfort's canny cultural diplomacy
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL AND NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHAnglo-Dutch network initiatives in the humanitiesJoint applications for up to €40,000 each have now been...
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V-cs: useless or priceless?
Fred Inglis and Nicola Dandridge offer diametrically opposed views of the quality and value of the academy’s leaders
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Stand up for shelf life
Badger your MP and kick up a fuss: London Met's treatment of the Women's Library must be challenged, argues June Purvis
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Hell on Earth: shock finding
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."That was the benign response of Professor B.D. Trott, the Head of our Department of Tourism, to reports that a new institute at the University of Central...
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REF may push players towards open goal
But publishers dismiss Willetts’ suggestion as not a ‘game changer’. Paul Jump reports
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Leader: Don't lose focus on the day job
Vice-chancellors have to show that their rewards are appropriate and their outside positions (and earnings) are no distraction
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Cambridge leader: going for growth will harm long-term contributions
Economic benefits are 'by-products' of teaching and research, says Sir Leszek. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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China in their hands
Howard Davies on the People’s Republic’s gamble on Western education
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Research intelligence - Tinkering produces converted Catalysts
Culture change is the focus of the Beacons' successors. Will it happen? asks Rachel Williams
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
• A former MI6 man has become the UK's oldest recorded graduate after gaining his third degree at the age of 90, The Independent reported. Bertie Gladwin took a master's in intelligence history at...
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From where I sit - Pursuit of happiness
It was inevitable that social scientists would devise what they call "indices of human happiness". These indices ask us to think about the well-being of nations not in terms of economic output, but...
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Odds and quads
These signed drawings of pigs, many of them dated between 1903 and 1910, are held in the archives of the Royal Northern College of Music.
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Appointments
Kingston UniversityAudley GenusThe new YTL professor of innovation and technology management at Kingston University Business School believes that there needs to be more understanding of the "...