Thinking, inside the box
BBC Four aims to touch parts of the brain other channels do not reach. Matthew Reisz speaks to Richard Klein, its controller, who says that academics, together with their passions, have key roles to...
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Mac the knife
Duncan Wu's inner adolescent rejoices in a crazy tale of an armed pensioner's battle with injustice
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Daytime TV: Creative impulses
Gauguin and Vaughan Williams had unconventional private lives, but they created beauty, says Gary Day
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Diary
LondonShakespeare is GermanWilliam Shakespeare is almost as significant a figure in German as in British culture. From 7 October to January 2011, London's Goethe-Institut - together with the Globe...
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The Pick - Gods, monsters and giants
The Times Cheltenham Literary Festival8-17 OctoberCheltenhamThe Times Cheltenham Literary Festival is celebrating its 60th birthday this year. It will feature plenty of celebrities, public figures...
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QAA loses its way - claim
"Whatever next?" That was the startled response of Nancy Harbinger, our Deputy Director of Student Experience, to the new auditing plans unveiled by the Quality Assurance Agency.Under the proposals,...
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Puff unto others
Felipe Fernández-Armesto deplores scholarly reviewing's tarnished golden rule
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Fortune will favour the brave
Changes ahead on the higher education horizon may prove the making of some institutions and the breaking of others
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From where I sit - Bye Beijing, see you, Shanghai
I was a little surprised to learn that Qi Yu, who graduated in June from Fudan University's School of Journalism, had chosen to work for a Hangzhou-based newspaper, The Youth Times.This talented...
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Bruce Williams, 1919-2010
The vice-chancellor who steered the University of Sydney through the era of student radicalism has died.Bruce Williams, the son of a clergyman, was born on 10 January 1919 in Victoria, ߣߣÊÓƵ,...
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Research intelligence - Damming the 'data deluge'
A workshop aims to bring design to bear on increasingly complex scientific information. Neha Popat reports
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Ahead of the curve
Advancing the frontiers of knowledge is at the core of the academy, but the crossing of established disciplinary boundaries is often resisted. How does a band of pioneers stake its claim to novel...
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Disciplines of the world, unite
Materialism has had its day. To understand the ideas that drive human activity, including economics, we need a new field that combines the arts and sciences, argues Deirdre N. McCloskey
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End envious attacks of green-eyed chauvinism 1
Thank you for "Sisters' winning formula" (30 September), which tackled the discrimination women face in the academy. It is refreshing to see that this important issue is gaining more visibility. It...