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Pacific connection boosts partnerships Down Under

13 March 2010

Australia and New Zealand see marked growth in research collaborations with China, reports Zoë Corbyn

‘No science cuts? I’ll throw a party’

12 March 2010

Adam Afriyie indicates that Tories would reduce the 2010-11 budget if they come to power. Zoë Corbyn reports

Dual-strand science funding pots may move closer in wake of budget review

11 March 2010
HEA's ex-chief calls for change in a frank end-of-term report

11 March 2010
Bournemouth head takes the reins at City

11 March 2010
An essential equation: saving jobs is a question of fractions for UCU at Sussex

11 March 2010

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READERS' REACTIONS

#loveHE, fighting job cuts and working obscenely hard

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Have your say on the launch of our #loveHE campaign, the fractional scheme to stave off redundancies at Sussex and the Essex professor who practises what he preaches

COVER STORY

Leader: Love HE? Let's count the ways #loveHE

11 March 2010

Higher education's many contributions to the UK are too often missed - we hope to help change that with our campaign

#loveHE: A big step into the grown-up world

11 March 2010

Children have some odd ideas about university and what happens there, but they also have lofty ambitions in which they see higher education playing a key role, as Rebecca Attwood and Sarah Cunnane learn from visiting schools for the launch...

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ONLINE COLUMNISTS

Tara Brabazon: Giving the sector the second degree

11 March 2010

Tara Brabazon muses on a non-graduate’s resentment at ‘taxpayer-funded’ higher education and the academy’s vision of lifelong ‘learner-earners’ buying social mobility

Blog Confidential: Onward, Christian bias

11 March 2010

Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online

The insecure scholar: Breathing space at last

9 March 2010
An opportunity to restore value and clarity to degrees

9 March 2010
Blog Confidential: Burnt out and nowhere to go

4 March 2010
The insecure scholar: The Judas generation

2 March 2010

PEOPLE

David Musselwhite, 1940-2010

11 March 2010

A leading literary critic described by an admirer as "a bit of an oddball" who was "not afraid to be an original thinker" has died.

Appointments

11 March 2010

University of Northampton

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RESEARCH

Research intelligence: 'High-level oversight'

11 March 2010

Adrian Smith tells Zoë Corbyn about BIS' move to seek the sector's advice when allocating the science budget

Grant winners

11 March 2010
Top institutions in materials science

11 March 2010
Research intelligence: Gifts for posterity

4 March 2010

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BOOKS

Book of the week: Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti

11 March 2010

Katrina Schlunke finds exotic tales of Pacific island encounters to be most revealing

The Search for the Codex Cardona: On the Trail of a Sixteenth-Century Mexican Treasure

11 March 2010

An attempt to solve the mystery of a lost Aztec treasure doesn't crack it, says Alan Sandstrom

What are you reading?

11 March 2010
The Canon: Studies in Classic American Literature. By D.H. Lawrence

11 March 2010
Kristallnacht 1938

11 March 2010
Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry-Based Learning

11 March 2010

Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times

11 March 2010
Diaghilev: A Life

11 March 2010
Published this week

11 March 2010
The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity: 1789-1914

11 March 2010

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OPINIONS AND LEADERS

The academy trek: a transformative journey into a world of potential

11 March 2010

Sir Patrick Stewart describes the delights of higher education, the dangers it faces and how Huddersfield lured him home

Canonical texts: are these the most influential books ever written?

23 April 2009

Are you obsessed with a 'baggy monster' or has a photocopied pamphlet sparked your passion for a whole new area of research? To kick off our new weekly series, leading scholars explain which books they believe are definitive in their field

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