Do you think I'm sexy?
"An important and exciting breakthrough." This was the reaction of Jamie Targett, our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, to recent research by Dr Catherine Hakim of the London School of...
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Greed is the going rate
Don't blame v-cs, argues Alan Ryan. It is the entire social system that is corrupt
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Research intelligence: Big Brother backlash
A website is shining the spotlight on state-perpetrated crime. Melanie McFadyean reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Off Piste: A very bearable lightness of being
Rick Rylance finds the enquiring attentiveness to what one might discover while diving is similar to the process of conducting research - without the corresponding need to write about it
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Leader: Support for second chances
'Upskilling' is a noble aim of the main parties, but to achieve it, we must remove the financial barriers to part-time study
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From where I sit: Show respect and make it real
The status of adjunct faculty is proving to be one of the summer's hot topics for discussion in higher education in North America.
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Wynne Godley, 1926-2010
Obituary
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Savings: v-cs should lead by example
In his letter to ߣߣÊÓƵ last week ("They're worth it, they say"), James Uccello comments on Vince Cable's attack on vice-chancellors' salaries ("Cable 'taken aback' by recent v-c pay...
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Who needs enemies?
Your report on a conference "defending" philosophy against university cuts is bizarre, particularly since it suggests that the event aimed to bring philosophers together to build a united front ("...
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A short hop over the pond
Your article "UK influence abroad at risk from lack of overseas study" (3 June) fails to mention American studies, an important subject that has promoted study abroad since the Fulbright Act of 1946...
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Debate, not threats
The University and College Union's response to Nicola Dandridge's article on the reform of the Universities Superannuation Scheme invites employers to begin talks "to help find a joint solution" to...
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That mission thing
THE's excellent analysis "Soul searching, not soul stirring" (20 May) missed two important aspects of the process of creating believable, evocative and meaningful mission statements.First, if the...
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Art of the matter
I am grateful to the architectural historian James Stevens Curl for his overwhelmingly positive review of my book, Pevsner - The Early Life: Germany and Art ("From Bildung to buildings", 3 June)....
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Hegemonic disease
After the postmodern, the altermodern, the digimodern and performatism ("Successor states to an empire in free fall", May), how about the virmodern? Namely, that stage of capitalism where the...