Obituary - Trevor Elliott
One of the most influential geoscientists of his generation has died.Trevor Elliott was born in Lancashire on 26 August 1949 and educated at Derby School. After graduating in geology from the...
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Awards and promotions
University of TokyoCatriona ElderA University of Sydney academic who has been appointed visiting professor in Australian studies at the University of Tokyo said it was evidence that her family’s...
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THE Scholarly Web - Outsources of discontent
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Kevin Fong - Word search
Baths, box sets, blueberry muffins, terror: Kevin Fong gives birth to a book
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News in brief
United StatesIt looks bad - we thinkA preliminary 2014 budget indicates that the governor of Louisiana may cut $200 million (£133 million) from state university funding. The higher education budget...
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Laurie Taylor
Back to the grindstone“We’ve nothing whatsoever to be ashamed of in Media and Cultural Studies.”That was the forthright response of departmental head Professor Gordon Lapping to the revelation that...
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Letters
Immigration forecast: ridge of Right pressureIf academic colleagues are wondering why the sector’s extensive lobbying to get overseas students reclassified as non-immigrants is being so strongly...
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Research intelligence - Imperial’s westward momentum
Private and state cash feed research giant’s £1bn new campus in W12. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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Untangling creation myths
Artistic practice may count as research within the academy but it must be treated carefully if innovation is not to be stifled
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Planned access network’s familiar look
Comparisons drawn between access plans and scrapped outreach scheme. Jack Grove reports
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Moocs may cut out recruitment middle man
Free online courses may help universities to recruit more overseas students directly by helping to forge links with potential applicants, universities and science minister David Willetts has told an...
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Exit strategy: Wellcome head welcomes fresh challenges
Wellcome Trust head looks back at a highly eventful decade in charge. Paul Jump reports
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For-profit warning on numbers cap
‘Draconian’ numbers cap could snuff out nascent sector, coalition warned. John Morgan reports
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Please ensure that students drink responsibly
Universities are condoning excessive drinking among undergraduates and failing to offer them adequate pastoral care, according to a survey of UK headteachers.Anthony Seldon, master of independent...