Dual-strand science funding pots may move closer in wake of budget review
11 March 2010
'Illogical' not to view QR and research council cash together, says BIS official. Zoë Corbyn reports
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BREAKING NEWS
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Dual-strand science funding pots may move closer in wake of budget review
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HEA's ex-chief calls for change in a frank end-of-term report
HEA's ex-chief calls for change in a frank end-of-term report
11 March 2010
The national body for university teaching has a future - but not in its present form, says its former head.
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Bournemouth head takes the reins at City
11 March 2010
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An essential equation: saving jobs is a question of fractions for UCU at Sussex
11 March 2010
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Students swear by module of 'obscenely hard' work
11 March 2010
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Rankings partner focuses on matters of reputation
11 March 2010
READERS' REACTIONS
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Practise what you preach, wrapped up in red tape and who owns the rights to your work?
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Have your say on Malcolm Gillies' call for ethical and intellectual models for students, the audit overload and the ruling that a student did not own the copyright to her dissertation
COVER STORY
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Leader: Love HE? Let's count the ways #loveHE
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...
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
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The insecure scholar: Breathing space at last
9 March 2010
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An opportunity to restore value and clarity to degrees
9 March 2010
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Blog Confidential: Burnt out and nowhere to go
4 March 2010
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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.
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RESEARCH
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Research intelligence: 'High-level oversight'
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
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Grant winners
11 March 2010
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Research intelligence: Gifts for posterity
4 March 2010
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Grant winners
4 March 2010
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
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What are you reading?
11 March 2010
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The Canon: Studies in Classic American Literature. By D.H. Lawrence
11 March 2010
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Kristallnacht 1938
11 March 2010
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Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry-Based Learning
11 March 2010
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Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times
11 March 2010
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Diaghilev: A Life
11 March 2010
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Published this week
11 March 2010
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The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity: 1789-1914
11 March 2010
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
THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS EVER WRITTEN?
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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LAURIE TAYLOR COLUMN
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Work less: save more
Work less: save more
11 March 2010
Proposals by the University of Sheffield that academics adopt a shorter working week have been enthusiastically endorsed by our vice-chancellor.
PILED HIGHER AND DEEPER
Cartoon by Cham
11 March 2010
