The week in higher education
While cinemagoers enjoy the Tina Fey romcom Admission - set at Princeton University - a real-life admissions furore has been unfolding in the US press. Writing in the Wall Street Journal on 5 April,...
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Campus round-up
Eastern exposureA first-year student has spent months painstakingly capturing the changing face of his university campus on film, which has become a hit online. Morten Rustad, a business management...
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Odds and quads
The caribou figurine from the Canadian Arctic (above, top-left), dated to around 1920, was used in rituals by Inuit hunters.
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Prudent lessons
Financial adroitness and efficient resource management has, in cash-flow terms, allowed Swansea Metropolitan University to sprint ahead of the pack. Could its fiscal success offer insights to the...
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The long view
A great historian’s last essays illuminate an era of social and artistic change, writes Roger Morgan
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Stories of O
A study of la petite mort focuses on cultural views not sociological explorations, finds Sally R. Munt
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Calls for change
Jyothsna Latha Belliappa discusses a familiar technology’s empowering, transformative effects
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Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time by Ira Katznelson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a New York Democrat both patrician and populist, occupied the White House for four successive terms after winning his first presidential election in 1932. In the nadir of...
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Headlines count, even the unflattering ones
Image problem? The LSE’s Gaddafi links did not harm the institution’s rankingFor universities, is any publicity good publicity? It may well be, according to the governing council of Newcastle...
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Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century by Eric Hobsbawm
Roger Morgan on a great historian’s last essays that illuminate an era of social and artistic change
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Combined forces
Academic input would boost a neglected war museum, says Sally Feldman
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Laurie Taylor
The alternative voiceRadical academic Ted Odgers, of our Department of Media and Cultural Studies, has declared himself “not at all surprised” by new research carried out by Michelle Addison, a...
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British scholar fears for career after US visa problems
Academic with Somali background believes he is on a US security watch list, writes David Matthews
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News in brief
THE Awards 2013Open for entriesEntries are now being welcomed from universities across the UK for the ninth annual Times Higher Education Awards. Institutions, departments and individuals will...
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New Cambridge college president’s female focus
Working for equality will be a priority for incoming head of Cambridge college, writes Matthew Reisz