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LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsSciences• Award winner: Jelena Grbic• Institution: University of Manchester• Value: £219,633The homotopy theory of toric spaces• Award winner: Heather Knight•...
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Unconscious track to disciplinary train wreck
When Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman sees a "train wreck looming" for social psychology, alarm bells should ring among its researchers. It is therefore regrettable to read Stephen Gibson, honorary...
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Hardly in it together
Well done to Times Higher Education for exposing the hypocrisy of university leaders who plead poverty when it comes to staff pay but see nothing wrong with enjoying enormous pay rises themselves ("...
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Baloney detection
Keir Thorpe tries to explain why administrators may resort to using jargon ("Another world's words", Opinion, 10 January). Jargon is used for two purposes: to aid communication of thought in fields...
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Best form of defence
Regarding the Council for the Defence of British Universities: what a splendid project!I write as a member of the anthropology department at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of...
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Ends and means
The recent "end of the world" debates might cause us to ask: what does that phrase actually mean? ("Merry Christmas (world is over)", News, 20/ December.) The ancient Greek term kosmos may help - it...
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Damned if you do
Miles Hewstone offers a refreshing analysis of the Oxbridge admissions process and calls for proper assessment to determine the admissions criteria that have validity ("Selection mechanism", Opinion...
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Political fabric
I strongly disagree with T.P. Burlap of Poppleton University, who claims that David Willetts, the universities and science minister, should use graphene to construct his responses (The Poppletonian,...
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Healthier constitution
Perhaps the reason US citizens are not knowledgeable about the US Constitution is because, as Alan Ryan notes, “the least well-off 80 per cent of the population exercises no influence on the policies...
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Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in Fin de Siecle Literature
Joanna Lewis hails a challenging ‘must-read’ for historians of late-Victorian imperialism
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Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
Like me and many other neuroscientists who study memory and who find ourselves explaining what we do to non-neuroscientists, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga must often have encountered people who claim they...
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Making Policy in British Higher Education 1945-2011
The main question raised by Michael Shattock’s new book is whether any underlying pattern can be discerned in post-war UK higher education policy. A number of writers have pointed to an increase in...
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Soldiers, Spies, and Statesmen: Egypt's Road to Revolt
Democracy suffers when the Islamists, the military and the secret police collude, writes Mariz Tadros
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Consuming Higher Education: Why Learning Can't Be Bought
Among the many processes that are said to define contemporary English universities are those of commercialisation, bureaucratisation, infantilisation and marketisation. To this list Joanna Williams...
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Linguistically closed for business
Education is key to the development of modern civilisation. A malfunctioning university system in any of the world’s leading economies is thus of grave concern not only for the country in question,...