Is 'dumbing down' really 'reaching up'?
Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone? Confronting 21st Century Philistinism
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Academic Entrepreneurship
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SOAS since the Sixties
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in 1969: "Mr Hackett turned the corner and saw, in...
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Cambridge celebrates a double whammy
Cambridge University scored a double first this week. An anonymous US donor gave $1.85 million (£960,000) to set up an endowment fund to honour cosmologist Stephen Hawking, and the institution also...
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Jobs cull is gathering pace
Hundreds of academic jobs are being culled across Britain as smaller and middle-ranking universities restructure subject provision to compete for research cash. Key figures in the sector warned of a...
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'You always get bright students who are not offered a place'
When David Clary takes over as president of Magdalen College, Oxford, he plans to focus on access and finance Oxford University colleges risk Laura Spence-style admissions rows every year, David...
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On the move ...
* The Arts and Humanities Research Board and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council have appointed a director for their first collaborative initiative, Designing for the 21st Century...
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Academics lose admissions role
Academics are losing control over student admissions as a series of universities look set to transfer responsibility for recruitment to central administrators, The Times Higher can reveal. In a...
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1,500 courses cut without job losses
Students are to be offered less choice at Anglia Polytechnic University from 2006 as the number of course options will be cut from 2,000 to 500. David Tidmarsh, the vice-chancellor, said the move...
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Scientists fail to see eye to eye over girl's 'X-ray vision'
A Nobel prizewinning scientist has clashed with one of Britain's leading experts on the paranormal in a row over the purported talents of a Russian schoolgirl who claims she uses X-ray vision to...
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Next week
Wheels of fortune Lisa Jardine assesses technology's impact on history Coming soon The Poppleton Awards for Notorious Teachingand Scholarship
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Meningitis warning
New guidelines about how universities should deal with a meningitis outbreak have been issued amid warnings that first-year students are most at risk. Universities UK said that 2,000 cases of...
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Welsh top-ups option
Welsh vice-chancellors have warned that top-up fees may be inevitable in Wales to stop academics fleeing universities for better funded English institutions. Higher Education Wales, which represents...
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Enterprise effort
Sir Brian Fender, chairman of commercialisation company BTG and former chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, is leading an initiative to formalise the knowledge-...