How the Stasi archive handles potentially incriminating information
David Matthews learns how archivists deal with enquiries about material collected by the former East Germany’s secret police that can still destroy reputations

David Matthews learns how archivists deal with enquiries about material collected by the former East Germany’s secret police that can still destroy reputations

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Charts also illustrate how developing nations concentrate their research on a narrower set of fields
The image and perception of liberal arts colleges has become blurred between the value of a liberal arts education and self-identified liberal arts institutions (“Does liberal arts education have an...
A general “universal income” for academia that includes research grants would put a damper on entrepreneurship in academia, would be a big barrier to entry for new providers and would create an even...
Is it too late to suggest that “framework” is an unhelpful label in the research excellence framework and the teaching excellence framework (“England’s KEF: will it be a ‘patent-counting’ extra...
“We hear a rising chorus of complaints about arrogant universities,” Glyn Davis, the vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Melbourne, writes in his article “‘Arrogant’ universities seen...
Edge Hill University’s submission to the teaching excellence framework was described as “warm and personal in tone” (“Stuck on repeat: using buzzwords ‘helped universities win gold in the TEF’”, News...
As stated in your leader “A measure of humanity” (Opinion, 19 October): “The US higher education sector is the most diverse in the world.” Nevertheless, in contrast to the situation in the UK, there...

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