Salford academics set to strike
Staff at the University of Salford will be on strike next Tuesday in protest against redundancies.
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Willetts seeks private finance for overseas expansion
The universities and science minister has appealed to private investors to support overseas expansion for UK universities and stated that investment bank Goldman Sachs is “keen to investigate this...
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Leading examples of excellence led by Queen Margaret
Queen Margaret University has scooped the top prize in the annual awards honouring the sector’s finest leaders, managers and administrators.
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THE Leadership and Management Awards 2012 winners
When we said last year that we were experiencing a period of uncertainty for the sector, we probably all hoped that things would be looking up by the time of the Times Higher Education Leadership and...
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Failing the Turing test
The REF's mendacious language and mismeasurements will recognise neither singular world-changing brilliance nor the value inherent in all scholarship, Fred Inglis argues. This bureaucratic beast,...
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Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars Is More Important than Winning Them
The enduring problem of war raises two particularly vexing questions. First, why have wars, in particular civil wars with the huge economic and social costs that they impose on affected populations,...
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Net Smart: How to Thrive Online
Electronic pioneer's cyber literacy guide is lost in translation, argues Harold Thimbleby
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Poetry of the Taliban
Chris Jones is discomfited by the extraordinary fruits of a troubled and troubling literature
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In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections
The difficulty for philosophers, trading mainly in age-old problems, is to offer something both true and interesting at the same time. Raymond Tallis manages, in the short essays that form the body...
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Playing at war, pestilence and death (but it's only a model - shh)
Matthew Reisz reports on how serious games offer insights into politics, pandemics and propaganda
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News in brief
AustraliaNow a part of a 'nitwit nation'?Universities in Australia are "haemorrhaging expertise" and "finding it increasingly difficult to recruit first-class home-grown talent", according to a...
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Take the power back from business, AAUP demands
Universities need to update guidelines on industry collaboration to reinstate academic rights that have been "seriously eroded" over the past generation, a report by the American Association of...
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Grant winners
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCILResearch Seminar AwardsPsychology• Award winner: Theodore Stickley• Institution: University of Nottingham• Value: £14,957Researching arts, health and well-being•...
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Open access may require funds to be rationed
Moving to gold model could cost sector an extra £60m a year, says Finch group. Paul Jump reports
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Quiet revolutionaries target fresh territory
University business development looks to private and international sources. David Matthews writes