Star signs and bad omens
Our willingness to end funding for 2* work bodes ill for the future of research at elites and new universities alike, says Michael Rayner
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Unexpurgated version
Debowdlerising a text to reveal the writer's 'original' intentions is not as simple as it might seem, Josephine Guy argues
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Diary
ManchesterThe 21st Century Library: A Physical or Virtual Place?If books are on the way out, do we still need libraries as key physical landmarks within our cities and learning communities? Although...
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Saving our bacon
In a move that Janet Fluellen, our Director of Curriculum Development, described as "profoundly logical", the Department of Social Sciences at our university will soon be merged with the Department...
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We expected much more
David Willetts, advocate for the arts? Nothing like it, accuses Sally Feldman
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Leader: Wise up to the modern world
To succeed in the 21st century, graduates will need much more than a narrow range of skills offered by an outdated academy
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Research intelligence - Let's dig a little deeper
Humanities set to benefit from second round of international digitisation project. Hannah Fearn reports
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Mission creep as US spends, spends, spends on the extras
Study rejects claim that sector allocates more to education than it receives in fees. Jon Marcus writes
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The week in higher education
A claim that 36,000 student places could be chopped to allow for the additional cost of subsidising tuition fee loans in 2012 prompted a rash of stories about policy chaos on 20 April. Ed Miliband,...
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From where I sit - High scores in the wrong game
Does the world revolve around world university rankings?I asked myself this question recently when I attended a national seminar on higher education in Serbia. One of the university rectors told me...
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The Pick - The Fat Girl Gets a Haircut and Other Stories
Innocence and experience
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Gordon Stone, 1925-2011
Gordon Stone is remembered as an inspirational, competitive, driven chemist who had a "boyish enthusiasm" for his subject and a strong desire to help his co-workers achieve their best - something...
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So last century
About 100 years ago, higher education restructured to meet the needs of the industrial age. It has changed little since, even as the internet has transformed life. Another revolution is needed, says...
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Imperial lather
Support for the monarchy is not this sceptred isle's only narrative, insists Clive Bloom. From Thomas Paine to bolshie bunting-subverters, arguments for a Republic weave in and out of our national...
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Keep death studies off the critical list
At a time when non-science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines are campaigning against budgetary cuts, cross-disciplinary research risks being overlooked. Who owns and will...