Tim Everton, 1951-2011
Tim Everton, a keen rugby player and an even keener organiser of post-match drinks, spent most of his career in teacher training, but ended up as a pub landlord.Mr Everton started out as a lecturer...
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TV reviews: Dispatches & Campus
Gary Day finds absurdity in two programmes on universities - and only one is on a fictional campus
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THE Leadership and Management Awards 2011: Shortlist
Shortlist picks out the people who help keep universities running even in the toughest of times
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Odds and quads
This model ship, made of matchsticks by members of the "Upington 26", is on display in the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town.
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Research intelligence - Variety not the spice of Ref?
Academics worry that framework's subpanels lack gender, race and geographic diversity. Paul Jump reports
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From where I sit - Yale makes India a key focus
Why is there a new buzz to the Yale-India relationship?New Haven academia's links with India are longstanding, beginning in 1718 when the Collegiate School of Connecticut was renamed Yale College in...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
University of SheffieldMexican wave reaches YorkshireA university has signed an agreement with Mexico's national science body to promote joint industrial research. The University of Sheffield's...
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The week in higher education
A leading astronomer has caused consternation among scientists by accepting a prize that recognises "exceptional contributions to affirming life's spiritual dimension". Sir Martin Rees, former head...
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Vince, you made your bed...
…and when it comes to £9,000 fees, you ought to lie in it, argues Kevin Fong
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14 April 2011
Into the limelight - Administrators believe reforms herald a bigger role
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Compromising higher learning, measure for reified measure
The obsession with contact hours is a result of the market logic that threatens to undermine the academy, argues Thomas Docherty
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Leader: It makes the world go round...
But the pursuit of money can be a zero-sum game, and one nation's loss may be another's gain - as the UK could learn to its cost
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Corrosive impact merits only dismissal (1 of 2)
Two years ago in this publication ("Modest revolt to save research from red tape", Letters, 12 February 2009), we wrote to express our concern with the research councils' new initiative now known as...
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Corrosive impact merits only dismissal (2 of 2)
So the Arts and Humanities Research Council claims to have voluntarily added the "Big Society" to its research themes ("Delete 'Big Society': email protest presses AHRC to drop Tory mantra", 7 April...