The root of our problems
Our Deputy Head of Sociology, Professor L.G. Angst, has reacted angrily to Hefce costings that show that subjects such as sociology will, under the new tuition-fees regime, help to subsidise more...
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Research Intelligence - Turn on, tune in and make waves
Academics with a hankering to shine on radio now have their opportunity. Paul Jump reports
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Ten years after 9/11, terror studies run on ideals and ready cash
Interdisciplinary alliances, job-seekers and patriots fuel growth in US scholarship, reports Jon Marcus
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Off Piste - The Anarchic view from the hutch
When an anthropologist and her partner were arrested on the eve of the royal wedding for planning an anti-monarchy mock execution, the incident ended up on YouTube - and the footage revealed concern...
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The week in higher education
• First the dodgy dossier, now the dodgy doctorate: Tony Blair and unreliable material are inadvertently together again. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Mu'ammer Gaddafi, sought out Mr Blair's...
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Leader: It's lost control again
As poor steering threatens to cut off the supply of homegrown STEM graduates, coalition policy looks set to crash and burn
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From where I sit - Few Dutch treats in globalisation
When it came at us from the margins, it caught most of us lecturers in the political science department on our blind side. The first stage of the Anglo-Saxon takeover appeared innocent enough: some...
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Appointments
University of NottinghamBob WebbA leading expert on reproductive biology has received the prestigious Marshall Award from the Council of the Society for Reproduction and Fertility, awarded for work...
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Taking Lithuanian leave
Malcolm Gillies asks: how much time off do we really need or deserve?
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Black and white and dead all over?
While the public fixates on tabloid phone hacking, the real crisis threatening the survival of newspapers goes unnoticed despite its dire consequences for public affairs, says Tim Luckhurst
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Act to fix black hole in national memory
Helen Hockx-Yu, head of web archiving at the British Library, comments that it is "about time that the measures needed to implement rules for the legal deposit of web publications are put into place...
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Simply lacking in expertise (1 of 2)
What an extraordinarily unpleasant letter from David Marsland ("A conspiracy against academic freedom", 1 September).The main objection of the historians to which he refers to David Starkey's...
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Simply lacking in expertise (2 of 2)
The BBC should surely be praised rather than blamed for inviting David Starkey to appear on their shows. As well as being its token non-leftist, his credentials as a historian can hardly be doubted....
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NSS fitness hardly a given
If you were to believe some parts of the academy, you would think that the National Student Survey is widely viewed as a positive force, providing useful information to both prospective students and...
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OIA remains the final refuge
I write to dissociate the Improving Dispute Resolution Advisory Service in the strongest possible terms from any suggestion that we consider the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher...