The joys of DIY publishing
Tim Luckhurst seems to miss the distinction between self-publishing and self-financed publishing ("Everyman's library of failure", 26 May).Both can be good ways of reaching small, specialist...
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Say that again
Nicholas Beyts clearly made a strong impression on your letters editor, to the extent that his missive about students and parents becoming shareholders in the academy ("A share of learning", 12 May)...
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Radical surgery
As the government continues to cast around for ideas to rescue its floundering plans for higher education, I am surprised it has not spotted the obvious solution: let the GPs sort it out. If they can...
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Deflated expectations
I was flicking through the magazine when I came across what seemed to be a new sex advice column. For there, in bold type, it said: "Keep it up with the help of a yearly check" (26 May).I read on but...
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Outsource all areas
With the University of Poppleton and other institutions frantically looking to reduce costs and re-engineer back-office and student-facing support via shared services, will the next Times Higher...
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Film review: Potiche
Duncan Wu finds irony and charm in the camped-up tale of a 1970s trophy wife's empowerment
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TV review: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Computers have not liberated us, Gary Day learns, but rather locked us in a corporate capitalist world
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David Mason, 1926-2011
Although he is known to many as the performer of the memorable piccolo trumpet solo on the Beatles' Penny Lane, David Mason will be remembered by those who knew him as "a real gentleman" who cared...
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THE Scholarly Web
A weekly round-up of the best on the scholarly web
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Campus round-up
Bucks New UniversityRestorative tonicAn expert furniture restorer to Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace and Kew Palace will head a panel at a university conference devoted to the latest trends in...
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Odds and quads: Knitting Collections and Knitting Reference Library, University of Southampton
These are among the 800 objects and about 1,200 patterns which, along with tools, photographs and postcards, make up the Knitting Collections and Knitting Reference Library at the University of...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Research intelligence - Bigger, faster, longer
Wellcome chief pleased with outcome of medical trust’s new super-awards. Paul Jump reports
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2 June 2011
Doctor ‘No Jobs’ - Too many white coats, not enough posts
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Do more to embrace the wide world, Nafsa urges North American institutions
The prospects for expanding international higher education opportunities in North America “may seem pretty grim”, but there has never been a more important time to promote them – “for our society and...