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Farce be with us always
I very much enjoyed Christopher Bigsby's article on campus novels ("Farce majeure", 21 June). His conclusion, which asks whether such novels are "an acknowledgement that universities have become a...
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Shake the moneymakers
I was contacted recently by the head of a private for-profit company asking whether, at short notice, I would be prepared to join a panel discussion as part of a conference on UK higher education....
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Touch of garlic
I enjoyed Sally Feldman's article on the Bauhaus' contributions to art and architecture ("Workshop of the world", Opinion, 14 June). She is right to point out that "the most profound legacy of the...
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Decades inside the box
That the expansion of college education in the US means that bright children are now more likely to attend prestigious universities and marry other intelligent people than they were a century ago has...
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Appointments
University of LincolnJohn DrakakisJohn Drakakis, the new visiting professor of English studies at the University of Lincoln, said he was "flattered" to be offered the role. Professor Drakakis, who is...
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Campus round-up
Cardiff/ExeterStop acting on impulseResearch has shown that people can train their brains to become less impulsive. Psychologists at the universities of Exeter and Cardiff assessed whether asking...
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Accelerated learning
As students cram for scarce undergraduate places, private institutions proliferate and research outputs rise rapidly, will China’s impressive growth spurts bring gains in quality as well as quantity...
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Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye
Later works, photographic ones in particular, redefine the creator of The Scream as a 20th-century artist, observes Alex Danchev
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Research intelligence - Continental rift over stem cell research
Funding of research using material from embryos reignites controversy, writes Elizabeth Gibney
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Morocco mission aims to build bridges and silence scepticism
British scholars head for North Africa to forge links with territory neglected by UK sector. David Matthews reports
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REF casts a shadow over teddy bears' picnic
When the 2014 research excellence framework was being devised to take into account real-world impact, relocating a long-established university nursery to make way for such research was probably not...
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Leader: Want gold? Let's see some cash
The move to open access should not mean cuts to research: the government and industry could pitch in to cover the transition
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From Where I Sit - Big Bong theory
Two memoirs by Indian scholars who spent many years at Oxbridge offer salutary insights into life at the ancient universities. Tapan Raychaudhuri, author of The World in Our Time and a professor of...
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