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Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
• The 1994 Group was dealt a blow last month when four member universities - Durham, Exeter, York and Queen Mary, University of London - announced that they were ditching the network of "small but...

‘Lucky’ Australia is feeling a rather British chill in the air, says Malcolm Gillies

Solitary course - The bill of fare for today’s ‘ideal’ scholar
Pursuit of an academic career forces many scholars to make personal sacrifices that are bad for them and for the profession

These formidable Victorian women all appear in a photograph album which forms part of the archives of the Association of Head Mistresses (AHM), now held in the Modern Records Centre at the University...

Resourceful academies in the global South and East have much to teach the ‘developed’ North and West, Sir David Watson observes

R&D and philanthropy are at the heart of a Turkish university’s ambitious plans. Matthew Reisz reports
Russell Group institutions may be pressing the government for higher fees, as Roger Brown contends ("Victors and spoils", 29 March). If so, they do not recognise the realities of the international...
Regarding "No mandate for change" (Letters, 22 March): we are the current and next chairs of the University and College Union's further education committee and the chair of its higher education...
The article on "post-autistic economics" in Germany ("Appliance of the dismal science", 29 March) describes the use of the term "autistic" in this context as "controversial", but it is worse than...
Times Higher Education singles out two recent developments as being significant for the future of "sciart": Cern's artists-in-residence programme and the MA in art and science at Central Saint...
In her piece about the way in which academics allow their creativity to be controlled by unimaginative "bean counters" ("Creative vs accounting", 22 March), Amanda Goodall wonders how this hijack...
Congratulations to Sally Feldman for her spirited defence of media studies from the "vituperative attacks" of a "self-loathing" media ("Painful reflection", 22 March).Her argument is especially valid...
Your report that researchers at the University of Aberdeen have discovered how electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) actually works to relieve severe psychological depression is to be welcomed ("Shock...