Values all can sign up to are on the agenda
Creating a charter of core values for universities that people across the sector can rally around and defend is the aim of a forthcoming event.The Convention for Higher Education, being held in...
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Union break-up blues for Scottish research?
Nation likely to lose fruitful position in UK research system, experts say. David Matthews writes
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Great Scott
As Baz Luhrmann’s film sparks Gatsby-mania, Catherine Clinton asks if any interpretation can live up to the novel’s elusive genius
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Rapid response
“Art is long, life is short,” goes the old saying. Scholarship and scientific research suffer much the same condition. They are long. But art, scholarship and scientific research no longer struggle...
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The Hermit in the Garden: From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome by Gordon Campbell
This is a curious book to have come out of Oxford University Press in that it is written in a refreshingly accessible style, displays much erudition, yet has no scholarly footnotes and often engages...
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The week in higher education - 23 May 2013
Just as relations between open-access advocates and their bête noire, the publisher Elsevier, were starting to thaw ever so slightly, a PR disaster for the company threatens to plunge it back into...
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Sometimes it's hard to be a man
Working-class students struggle with ‘composite masculinity’, study finds
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Social media use may flag up likely dropouts
Lack of online interaction could signal need for support, research suggests
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Bleak prognosis for health funding budget transfer
Treatment to avoid cuts would do more harm than good, critics say
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Neoliberal limits
Can the Social Science Centre really build a local institution offering a reimagined higher education free of the market? Alastair Bonnett meets participants in an alternative knowledge economy
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‘Graduate premium’ is shrinking fast
Essex scholar Malcolm Brynin points to worsening odds on university ‘gamble’
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Snap decisions
Getting image permissions for monographs is costly, slow and vexing