Tara Brabazon: Just-in-case learning, just in time
Education is never wasted, no matter what business leaders say, argues Tara Brabazon
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Grace and disfavour: Willetts earns Oxford and Cambridge no-confidence votes
A campaign for a nationwide vote of “no confidence” in the government’s higher education reforms has been launched by a group of academics and students at the University of Oxford.
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Former London v-c steps up as ill health forces Offa director to stand down
The former vice-chancellor of the University of London, Sir Graeme Davies, has taken over as director for fair access after Sir Martin Harris was forced to step down to undergo treatment for cancer.
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Inside Higher Ed: Rejecting Double Blind
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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RCUK and Hefce step up push for open access
Research Councils UK and the Higher Education Funding Council for England have agreed to work together to advance the transition to open-access publishing of research.
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Employers make £100 pay offer
Higher education employers have offered staff a £100 pay rise for the 2011-12 academic year.
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With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918
A.W. Purdue examines how the Western Allies went from underdogs to victors in the space of a year
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Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism
Deborah Rogers finds 'fictionish' flair in tales of the erotic lives of 19th-century radicals
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Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema
There were two types of multiple moviegoers in the late 1960s: those who boasted of the number of times they had seen The Sound of Music and those who slipped in at the back of every available...
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Being an Information Innovator
Librarians obsess about silos - stores of bibliographical data that are inhospitable to outside developers, skill sets that are inapplicable beyond the profession, jargon that nobody else understands...
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A Planet of Viruses
A popular account of a once-mysterious evolutionary player sparkles with 'wow' moments, Jon Turney finds
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Women in Leadership: Contextual Dynamics and Boundaries
More than 300 scientists have won a Nobel prize since the honour was established, Karin Klenke notes, but only 10 of them were women. In her latest study of women's leadership, Klenke provides a...
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The Sarkozy Phenomenon
Nicolas Sarkozy's election as president of France in 2007 represented a change of political generation, a point he himself underlined by adopting "rupture" as his campaign slogan and presenting...
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Fees threats won't get us anywhere, Keele v-c says
Head also reaffirms commitment to institution's 'broad-based' heritage. John Morgan reports
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Meeting of minds: we still need that room in Bloomsbury, say UCL vets
Loss of Housman Room would deal grievous blow to interdisciplinary work. Hannah Fearn reports