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Stephen Greenblatt, professor of the humanities at Harvard University and outgoing president of the Modern Language Association of America, wants academics to buy more of each others' books and set...
Stephen Greenblatt, professor of the humanities at Harvard University and outgoing president of the Modern Language Association of America, wants academics to buy more of each others' books and set...
Saturday New Orleans is a city waiting for night. It is not only the streetcars that are named desire - the entire French Quarter dissolves into jazz, blues and sex. Sit on the balcony. Below a...
Tradition demands that The Diary's new year message outlines the shape of higher education for the coming year. This year, given the imminent release of the government's strategy paper, we are...
Former research director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and member of the social policy and social work panel for the 2001 research assessment exercise The research assessment exercise in its...
Want strong, solvent universities? Cut their dependence on the public purse, says Patrick Dowling The government wishes to establish a sound financial framework for our universities. Lowering the...
Imprisoned Scottish-born academic Lesley McCulloch has begun a hunger strike after her US friend Joy Lee Sadler was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
When it comes to constructing a course, universities should chuck out the chintz and make the design clear, stimulating and satisfying, writes Paul Kleiman. Universities are idiosyncratic...
What is your experience of teaching in higher education? Our new column asks teachers how they manage . Name: Frank Griffith Age: 43 Job title: Jazz and popular music lecturer Job description: I...
A cycle of educational advantage whereby privately taught pupils go to top universities, gain good degrees and return to teach in independent schools has been revealed in a survey. The survey,...
Former US president Bill Clinton is emerging as the front-runner for the next chancellor of Oxford University, although no formal nominations have yet been placed. The death at the weekend of Lord...
Koïchiro Matsuura, director-general of Unesco, this week rejected an academic boycott of Israel. His comments came as two Parisian universities wrestled with the boycott issue, which erupted in...
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