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Tim Birkhead on universities' courtship of their next cohort of students
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From where I sit - Logos do not deliver popularity
I bumped into a colleague the other day who expressed her relief at the outcome of the ߣߣÊÓƵn election. The result had hung in the balance for two weeks and could have gone either way before...
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Franz Schurmann, 1926-2010
An academic expert on China and global politics who was also a pioneering journalist has died.Franz Schurmann, the son of a German mother and a Slovenian father, was born in New York on 21 June 1926...
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Research Intelligence - Practice makes profit
UK humanities scholars have reaped rewards in Europe thanks to their grant-writing experience, reports Paul Jump
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The dogma delusion
The notion of a 'war' between science and religion is a media-friendly but profoundly inaccurate model for scholars' many-hued and nuanced views of God, faith and doubt. Matthew Reisz reports
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The six wives and nine lives of Henry VIII
Bard movies, ruff sex, soap-opera 'faction' and grumpy old historians: Clive Bloom on our enduring fascination with the Tudors
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Trouble with numbers
Mass higher education has brought social mobility to millions worldwide, but as access expands and academia is stretched to breaking point, standards are in steady decline, writes Philip Altbach
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UK is standing strong, not clinging on 1
The latest ߣߣÊÓƵ World University Rankings based on new methodology have attracted much attention since being published last week.Regrettably, some of the headlines and...
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UK is standing strong, not clinging on 2
The article comparing aggregate points in the THE World University Rankings raised some interesting points. However, this is only a starting point. What we really need is to recalculate the figures...
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UK is standing strong, not clinging on 3
You point out that the US dominates the THE World University Rankings and that the UK is in second place. While the effects of spending on higher education as a proportion of GDP are discussed, there...
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UK is standing strong, not clinging on 4
"It hath been finished" and now? In essence, THE's list of top institutions does not reveal anything excitingly new. We will all agree that these "top 200" are very good universities and that they...
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UK is standing strong, not clinging on 5
As with every time new "world rankings" are published, I find myself scratching my head.Am I missing something? Card-carrying professional scientist that I am, it still completely eludes me how...
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Not a mixed blessing
You confidently assert that the Catholic University of Ireland - which only later became University College Dublin - of which Cardinal Newman was appointed first rector by Pope Pius IX and Archbishop...
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Needle point
Judith Farquhar berates me for not being an expert on Chinese medicine (Letters, 9 September), but she is a professor of anthropology. I can find only one publication by her in PubMed, a digital...