Academy unbound
David Vaiani argues that the UK's universities must cast off the bonds of state finance to thrive on the global stage
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Hearts and minds
Terry Castle's fearlessly frank essays range over sexual identity, family, jazz, lesbian kitsch and a devastating affair with an older academic. Matthew Reisz reports
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Diary
NorwichPlane JamUnmanned aircraft will enter the lower airspace of the city of Norwich as part of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, which runs from 6 to 21 May. Plane Jam is an intervention by the...
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The Pick - Brighton Festival 2011
Brighton Festival 2011Brighton, 7-29 MayThe Brighton Festival 2011 opens over the weekend with music, mime, a children's parade and a documentary about Aung San Suu Kyi - this year's guest director...
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Metaphorically speaking
Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has announced that he shares the concerns about the divisions between academics and management recently expressed by Alison Johns,...
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Leader: To get to the truth, open up
More transparency from scientists, journals and institutions would go a long way to ensuring that flawed research is quickly detected
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Research intelligence - Opening night, curtain call?
Shakespeare journal screws courage to sticking place on open peer review, but doubts remain. Paul Jump writes
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The week in higher education
• Two academics planning an anti-monarchy mock execution outside Westminster Abbey were arrested ahead of last week's royal wedding. Chris Knight, a former professor of anthropology at the University...
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From where I sit - Gulf between aims and outcomes
Investment in education in the Gulf countries has seen a dramatic increase in recent decades. Governments have engaged in highly ambitious projects to put themselves on the global education map:...
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Frank Healey, 1923-2011
Frank George Healey was one of the leading figures in the reform of modern language teaching in universities during the 1960s and 1970s.However, his introduction to university life had not been an...
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Average measurements
Malcolm Gillies discusses the fees revolution’s mean, median and mode
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Systems failure
A scandal involving clinical trials based on research that was riddled with errors shows that journals, institutions and individuals must raise their standards, argues Darrel Ince
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Words as weapons
Study of the best that has been thought and said is under attack. Fred Inglis turns to F.R. Leavis for the ordnance with which to defend the humanities
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No stars for Hefce's mixed messages
Like Michael Rayner ("Star signs and bad omens", 28 April), I too was dismayed to learn of the Higher Education Funding Council for England's intention in 2011-12 to reduce by more than two-thirds...
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They doth protest too much
Neil Badmington's and Lisanne Gibson's responses to my correspondence of 7 April (Letters, 14 and 28 April respectively), in which I highlighted the need for regular face-to-face academic guidance...