Participation is widening, just not at the elite end
New research shows stalled progress in access to selective institutions. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Daytime TV: Running on empty
Gary Day looks into the psyche of the troubled detective Luther, a man trying to escape his past
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Building a world-class university
A ߣߣÊÓƵ and Thomson Reuters conference for academic leaders. This exclusive event is a must for policymakers and senior staff in the world’s leading higher education institutions
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Here's looking at you
In a shock move, our Head of Spatial Optimisation, Mike Cram, has announced that our university's three senior common rooms will shortly be replaced by a single "ambient interaction locus" in the...
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News in brief
Graduate employmentToo many gaps to fillEmployers fear there will not be enough graduates and skilled workers to fill the "high-level jobs" created as the economy recovers from the recession, the CBI...
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Live a year in my shoes
Tim Birkhead wonders if a critic would feel differently after a job swap
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Research Intelligence: Help the aged
A multidisciplinary initiative aims to defuse the UK's demographic time bomb. Neha Popat reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Is he our man in a pinch?
David Willetts has the intellect to deal with his universities and science briefs. How that will feed into policy is as yet unknown
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From where I sit: Red cards for 'hot' courses
More than 6 million young people are expected to enter the job market this summer after they graduate from university. Before many have even had an interview, they have been warned that the "hot"...
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Ulrich Nehmzow, 1961-2010
A renowned expert on robot design who pursued "the age-old dream" of building an intelligent "living" machine has died.Ulrich Nehmzow was born in Kulmbach, Germany on 18 September 1961 and educated...
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Humanities 'self-harm' a case of awful timing 1
The attack on humanities research by Clive Bloom, emeritus professor of English and American studies at Middlesex University, is another curious act of self-harm by the university and very poorly...
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Humanities 'self-harm' a case of awful timing 2
Clive Bloom has never met an academic who "works nine to five, five days a week". Data summarised by Malcolm Tight in Higher Education Quarterly show that academics on average work 55 hours a week....
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Humanities 'self-harm' a case of awful timing 3
One must presume that Clive Bloom arrived at his epiphany regarding the economy with which humanities research can be undertaken only after benefiting from the "largesse" of Arts and Humanities...
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Humanities 'self-harm' a case of awful timing 4
Oh dear. Was this article really necessary? From someone at Middlesex as well? Mistimed and crashingly insensitive. (FYI, Professor, there is no "Provencal plainsong", but I'll happily apply for an...