TV review: Hilary Mantel: A Culture Show Special
Hilary Mantel's work is suffused with undercurrents and with what might have been, says Gary Day
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Anna Siewierska, 1955-2011
Anna Siewierska was best known in academic circles for her work in linguistic typology, but her colleagues also remember her excellent hosting skills, her friendly nature and her love of hiking and...
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Campus round-up
University of East AngliaLiquid hunches are not enoughDehydration is a severe problem for the elderly, causing confusion and falls and making hospital admission more likely, yet it is not always easy...
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Odds and quads
This 18-carat gold cigarette case belonged to Harry Price (1881-1948), a writer, amateur conjuror and ghost hunter who, in 1923, set up the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, in order "to...
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Out of the shadows
W.G. Sebald, stifled by the culture of silence in post-war Germany, by ‘people’s ability to forget what they do not want to know’, settled in 1960s England and wrote groundbreaking literary works to...
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22 September 2011
High anxiety - Tense about the new term? You’re not alone
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Data be damned: REF's blueprint for systemic intellectual corruption
The abandonment of metrics will leave the assessment exercise exposed to sheer subjectivity and bias, warns Andrew Oswald
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Sage fright
Excitement, anxiety, shaking in your boots. Academics experience mixed feelings as term starts, says Jon Marcus
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Universities cheered by Scottish spending review, but colleges face pain
The Scottish government has pledged to increase funding for universities in a spending review that sets the budget for the next three years.
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Clegg: ‘Breaking promise on fees was heart-wrenching’
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has described the coalition government’s decision to increase university tuition fees – which went against pledges he made before the election – as “heart-wrenching”...
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Trial of Italian seismologists ‘misguided’, experts warn
A decision to charge a group of Italian seismologists and officials with manslaughter for failing to predict an earthquake that killed over 300 people “defies belief”, according to a UK expert in the...
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‘Show students the data – or others will do it for you’, Willetts warns
Students should be able to view simple pie-charts showing how their university spends its tuition fee income, David Willetts has said.
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Doubts raised about PQA and AAB proposals as sector responds to White Paper
Plans for students to apply to university after receiving their A-level results have been challenged as the consultation on the higher education White Paper draws to a close.