Mission impossible
Higher Education and Corporate Realities:
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Rearranging deckchairs
Researching Education Policy: - Researching the Powerful in Education
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The debased campus
The University and the Teachers: - Academic Community: - We Scholars:
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The educated ear of a sick regime
Music in the Third Reich
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The view from the bridge
The Research University in a Time of Discontent
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The worthy on the unworthy
Guardians of Science:
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Those in the know
The Limits of Competence
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Final word
This week's Final Word comes from a pre-war high-flier with a mystical streak: "Only the Spirit, breathing upon the clay, can create Man." The winner of last week's competition, who correctly...
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Speaking Volumes: Moby-Dick
A. Robert Lee on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick . A summer vacation job clerking at the Army and Navy Store in 1963 might not seem the likeliest of contexts for a first close encounter with Moby-Dick....
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD. Readerships: Michael Slater, senior lecturer in chemical engineering takes up a readership in separations technology; Christopher Pass, managerial economics lecturer is now a...
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Events
MAURICE COCKRILL EXHIBITION. Nottingham University will present a major retrospective of Maurice Cockrill's paintings at the Djanogly Gallery, for the first time in 12 years. The exhibition tells the...
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Chairs
HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY. Mark Schaffer, research fellow in the centre for economic performance at London School of Economics has been appointed to the professorship in the centre for economic reform...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. Eric Fernie has been appointed director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, from October 1995, succeeding Michael Kauffmann on his retirement. UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND Andrew...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a pre-war high-flier with a mystical streak: "Only the Spirit, breathing upon the clay, can create Man." Entries should be submitted to Final Word, The ThEs, Admiral...
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How to measure mission success
When higher education minister Tim Boswell spoke to the recent English funding council conference, the media predictably focused on his criticism of the council's and Committee for Vice Chancellors...