Stuck in the Dark Ages 3
So Archbishop Stephen Hawking has pontificated that God is not necessary to explain the Universe. He asks us to believe that the laws of physicists can now be enshrined in M-Theory - a Theory of...
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Discord needs new tune
Your report "Tribunal finds in favour of Gloucestershire whistleblower" (www.timeshighereducation.co.uk, 1 October) prompted comments online about institutions wasting money resisting employment...
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Didn't get the memo
Robert Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago, defends a "wide-ranging" higher educational policy ("Cultivate minds that can integrate, avoid too much specialisation?", timeshighereducation....
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Bruce Williams, 1919-2010
The vice-chancellor who steered the University of Sydney through the era of student radicalism has died.Bruce Williams, the son of a clergyman, was born on 10 January 1919 in Victoria, Australia,...
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QAA loses its way - claim
"Whatever next?" That was the startled response of Nancy Harbinger, our Deputy Director of Student Experience, to the new auditing plans unveiled by the Quality Assurance Agency.Under the proposals,...
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From where I sit - Bye Beijing, see you, Shanghai
I was a little surprised to learn that Qi Yu, who graduated in June from Fudan University's School of Journalism, had chosen to work for a Hangzhou-based newspaper, The Youth Times.This talented...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Research intelligence - Damming the 'data deluge'
A workshop aims to bring design to bear on increasingly complex scientific information. Neha Popat reports
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Leader: Fortune will favour the brave
Changes ahead on the higher education horizon may prove the making of some institutions and the breaking of others
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Puff unto others
Felipe Fernández-Armesto deplores scholarly reviewing's tarnished golden rule
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ASEAN nations ranked by total citations
ASEAN nations ranked by total citationsData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, January 2000-June 2010 Country Papers CitationsImpactHighly cited papers%...
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Paint it green
The UK's longest graffiti mural has been painted on to the building-site hoardings surrounding a new environmentally sustainable student-accommodation development. Street artist Mohammed Ali spent...
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University of Hertfordshire - Bear trajectories
An engineer has demonstrated how teddy bears can travel at supersonic speeds. Ray Wilkinson, principal lecturer in engineering at the University of Hertfordshire, showcased his work in rocketry as...
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Nottingham/Manchester - Victory float
Two academics are hoping to break the world distance and duration records for female balloonists. Janet Folkes, a mechanical engineer from the University of Nottingham, and her co-pilot Ann Webb, an...
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Kingston University - You're not so vain after all
Authors who pay to see their work in print can hold their heads up high: self-publishing has shed its shady past and is now a respectable business, an academic has claimed. Alison Baverstock, an...