NSP overhauled to help neediest
Oft-criticised scholarship scheme’s riches will now follow the poor, BIS states. Jack Grove reports
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Territory of dreadful delight
Joanna Lewis hails a challenging ‘must-read’ for historians of late-Victorian imperialism
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THE Scholarly Web
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High and low profile
Living with bipolar disorder is nothing like the movies, says Sally Feldman
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Meetings of minds or shotgun weddings?
Whether spurred by lofty research ambition or the prosaic hope that one can live more cheaply than two, universities’ urge to merge can bring cultural as well as organisational challenges, as recent...
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Mergers: who benefits?
One academic’s experience of coalescing institutions was not a positive one, largely owing to a lack of forethought or consideration
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Selling the dream
TV series dramatising the rise of department stores highlight a turning point in consumer culture, as entrepreneurs seduced female shoppers into becoming part of the bourgeois set
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Let's wait for the weightings
Data on the number of eligible staff submitted to the REF will produce better rankings - but funding councils must play ball
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Forget illness - build resilience!
“It’s time to get tough with illness.”Those were the fighting words used by Louise Bimpson, Corporate Director of our ever-expanding Human Resources Department, as she introduced the brand new “Let’s...
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Best in show: more top dogs in degree pack
The number of students gaining first-class degrees has risen by almost 50 per cent over the past five years, data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency have shown
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Trent: What Happened at the Council by John W. O’Malley
Alec Ryrie salutes a committed and critical look at a key event in the history of Catholicism
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Union steels itself for hostile future
UCU set for tough talk over resources and strategy, general secretary Sally Hunt tells Jack Grove
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THE podcast: 17 January 2013 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanEditor John Gill and reporters David Matthews and Elizabeth Gibney join Chris Parr for this week’s THE podcast, to discuss some of the highlights from the latest issue of...
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17 January 2013
For better, for worse - The secrets of a successful merger
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Seymour Laxon, 1963-2013
A leading researcher on the changes taking place at the polar ice caps has died.Seymour Laxon was born on 22 September 1963 and brought up in Leamington Spa and then North London. His parents were...