A rattling good read
In common with a number of other leading scientists, our Deputy Head of Behavioural Science, Dr T. Mays, has spoken of the important role played by the humanities in the development of a fulfilled...
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Leader: Guardians of their own future
Malcolm Gillies' report on university governance, the fruit of bitter personal experience, offers a way forward for the sector
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Research intelligence - Variations on eight themes
The architect of the research plan at Leicester's College of Medicine explains its successes to Paul Jump
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Industry welcomes magical transformation of Disney interns
Students say the Disney College Program teaches skills they can't learn in class. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
Coverage of the University and College Union's strike action struggled to judge the numbers involved, or its impact. The Daily Mirror said on 24 March that institutions "will be crippled...as tens of...
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From where I sit - Doctorates for everyone
Question: When is a doctorate not a doctorate? Answer: When it's a master's degree.So here's the thing: government education ministers in ߣߣÊÓƵ are seriously considering a proposal to award...
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Paul Stiff, 1949-2011
A leading typographer and design historian who dropped out of university as an undergraduate has died.Born in Middlesbrough on 1 August 1949, Paul Stiff abandoned his degree course in sociology at...
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Ignorance wins the day
Felipe Fernández-Armesto fears for the future of a leading comprehensive
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Rethink funding 'mess' to achieve democratic and wide participation
Offa’s access agreements will not work, argues Thomas Docherty, although two principles should be kept in any alternative system
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Citation averages, 2000-2010, by fields and years
Citation Averages, 2000-2010, by fields and yearsSource: Thomson Reuters' Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 2000-31 December 2010Years...
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Two proposals to coax snouts out of troughs
We should be grateful to ߣߣÊÓƵ for so thoroughly researching the remuneration of university vice-chancellors ("Identity check", 24 March). It is indefensible that the highest levels...
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Private whipping boys
While it is heartening to see the government trying to wrestle with the complex issues surrounding overseas students, its latest announcements have thrown up a number of inconsistencies ("Visa...
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Candid Cantor
We should be grateful to Brian Cantor, chair of the Employers Pensions Forum, for coming clean about two things that we always suspected but our employers had previously denied ("In this climate, USS...
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Underneath the Ivies
John Summers depicts an Ivy League education as a requirement for meaningful access to political power in the US ("Failure is not an option", 24 March). While many of Barack Obama's advisers are Ivy...
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Eye, meet mote
By allowing that "the reputation of the university, as a key institution of society, lies in its fearless pursuit of the truth", Malcolm Gillies succeeded in lifting at least one of my eyebrows a...