Another world's words
Is the use of corporate jargon a surprise, asks Keir Thorpe, when university managers are made to feel so insecure?
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Slow ethics will tackle moral winter
We need to calm our frenetic lives and let virtues such as integrity, patience and respectfulness prevail, reflects Ann Gallagher
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Trust exercises benevolence as actors enter new life stage
Matthew Reisz reports on the bursaries helping ex-thespians to pursue higher education goals
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Sandwich short of a picnic
Funding system must ensure it does not hamper institutions’ ability to offer work placements crucial to graduate employment
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From Where I Sit - More to Moocs than moolah
I spent some of the past semester trying to be an active learner on a Coursera massive open online course (Mooc) on modern poetry from the University of Pennsylvania. It was an impressive, well-...
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Major breakthrough in science of atoms - latest
One of our leading theoretical physicists, Dr T.P. Burlap, has come up with a radical idea for utilising the new “miracle material” graphene.In a paper published in the latest edition of The British...
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THE podcast: 10 January 2013 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanNews editor Simon Baker, deputy news editor John Morgan and reporter Jack Grove join Chris Parr on this week’s THE podcast to discuss some of the highlights from the latest...
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10 January 2013
Multilayered intellect - What extra insight does a scholar gain from a varied career path?
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Tell your story clearly, and consider getting a little help if needed
The REF’s impact case studies present myriad challenges. Seeking an outside view might be no bad thing, argues Neil Robinson
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Jiro Dreams of Sushi
A documentary about a Japanese Michelin-starred perfectionist has tasty titbits but not enough meat for Barak Kushner’s taste
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Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger
Shahidha Bari commends an expert guide to figures of foreignness from Coleridge to 9/11
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Senior Tory attacks Willetts' 'latent snobbishness'
David Willetts, the universities and science minister, has been attacked by a Tory colleague for showing "snobbishness" on university access and perpetuating an "authoritarian elitist fantasy" in his...
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Hesa to release 'contextual' staff data for REF
The proportion of staff submitted by each unit of assessment to the 2014 research excellence framework will become clear for the first time after the Higher Education Statistics Agency announced it...
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'Fearlessly independent' judge to mark Ebdon's work
The government has appointed a reviewer to assess any appeals by universities against decisions taken by Les Ebdon, the director of fair access.
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Bristol-Kyoto symposium aims to boost UK-Japan links
A university will this week welcome 90 academics from a single Japanese institution in what thought to be the biggest international symposium of its kind held in the UK.