Nightmare scenarios
Using fiction to satirise perceptions of the current state of the academy seems to be gaining in popularity ("This REF is a deadly serious undertaking", 20 October). A couple of years ago we had the...
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The kids at Cambridge are better than all right
The head of outreach programmes at the University of Cambridge has said that students at the institution are "appreciably better" than they were 20 years ago.
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Film review: Jack Goes Boating
A restrained portrayal of love resists the clichés of romance and the New York film, says Duncan Wu
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TV review: Young Nuns
Choosing the life of a nun is not easy, finds Gary Day, but their days are filled with silence and contentment
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Friedrich Kittler, 1943-2011
One of the leading media theorists of his generation, described by a peer as "brilliant, controversial and cantankerous", has died.Friedrich Kittler was born in Rochlitz, Saxony, on 12 June 1943 and...
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THE Scholarly Web
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Campus round-up
University of EssexMind controlPeople with severe physical disabilities who find it difficult or impossible to use joystick-operated wheelchairs may benefit from a new study. The Robotics Research...
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Odds and quads
A substantial collection of material relating to New Jersey-born rock legend Bruce Springsteen has been acquired by Monmouth University in West Long Branch, US.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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3 November 2011
Critical vanguard - Radical journals, maverick voices and the search for solutions
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Ditch conservatism to survive, universities told
Universities will have to ditch the conservatism that has allowed them to survive in the past and change at a much greater pace if they are to prosper in the future, a professor at the Massachusetts...
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Campaigners battle plans to close UEA's School of Music
A campaign has been launched to save the University of East Anglia’s School of Music after an internal review recommended its closure.
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Visa crackdown puts 450 colleges out of the international student business
More than 450 private colleges have been stopped from recruiting international students after most of them failed to sign up to the Home Office’s new rules for inspection of the sector.
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Social scientists and politicians ‘falling short’ on policymaking
Governments are often right to be sceptical about the over-ambitious claims of social scientists, a leading sociologist has argued.
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Lancaster to set up shop in China
Lancaster University has announced plans to collaborate with Guangdong University of Foreign Studies to build a new university campus in Guangzhou, China.