Diary
ManchesterThe Devil's WallIdris Khan's new installation, to be seen in the UK for the first time at the Whitworth Art Gallery (until 13 May), draws inspiration from the pilgrimage to Mecca. At its...
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The Pick - Other Stories: Queering the University Art Collection
Other Stories: Queering the University Art CollectionStanley & Audrey Burton GalleryUniversity of Leeds February to 5 MayBernard Meninsky's Mother and Child, painted in 1919, is a touching image...
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Me, myself and I
One of our leading scholars, Professor F.R. Beavis, of the Department of English and Related Studies for Impact, has announced that in future he will acknowledge the co-authorship of research that he...
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REF's effort to make knowledge visible may have cloudy results
Impact assessments will shape behaviours - but not necessarily in desired directions, argue Katherine Smith and Nasar Meer
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Research Intelligence - Collaboration is an essential procedure
Researchers, industry and NHS must deliver results, Academy of Medical Sciences' head tells Paul Jump
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Cap and gown learning on a shoestring budget
With novel credentials being developed and employers seeing the value of low-cost study based on open courseware, Jon Marcus asks if the bricks-and-mortar elite will end up on the wrong side of...
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Off Piste - Lesser Spotted - Well, that's just the professors
Physicist Athene Donald's pleasure in people-watching may owe something to a childhood spent observing birds of all kinds as they soared over city heaths and icy coastal mudflats
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The week in higher education
• Two teenagers ruffled feathers at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills by bringing a legal challenge against this year's tuition-fee hike. Lawyers for Callum Hurley, from Peterborough...
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From where I sit - P.S. Ich liebe dich
The German media have found themselves irresistibly attracted to a student who wants to turn flirting into a subject for academic analysis by introducing his own seminar on "live flirting training"...
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Odds and quads
These striking wire-mesh sculptures of naked, falling figures hanging from the ceiling often attract attention and comment from students and visitors at the University of Sunderland's automotive...
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Appointments
University of BathDavid MillerA newly appointed professor of sociology at the University of Bath aims to analyse the impact of terrorism studies as part of his new role. David Miller, previously...
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Time is the essence
Malcolm Gillies argues that to succeed, universities must be of the moment
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Textbook guide - 23 February 2012
 Subjects covered: Biosciences, Geography & environmental science, History, Literature, Medicine, Politics & international relationsSee the 23 February 2012 textbook guide
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A Global History of History
Author: Daniel WoolfEdition: FirstPublisher: Cambridge University PressPages: 596Price: £60.00 and £22.99ISBN: 9780521875752 and 699082The past decade has seen global history become part of the...