Fawlty reaction
Mary Evans' "Heartbreak hotels" (Opinion, 24 May) served little purpose. The appropriate reaction to the lamentable "service" she described was: first, complain to the hotel manager face to face and...
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Stop digging
Helen Sword's book Stylish Academic Writing has an interesting title. Could you publish a review of the contents? ("Prose to die for, by the Spade-ful", Books, 3 May).Martyn Thomas, London
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Appointments
Liverpool Hope UniversityFrank Cottrell BoyceThe newly appointed professor of reading and communication at Liverpool Hope University joked that his first thought when he was offered the job was: "...
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Campus round-up
University of East LondonDresses to impressBudding fashion designers presented their work to the Queen during a stop on her Diamond Jubilee tour of the UK. Mikaela Cephinis, a foundation textiles and...
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Zero-sum game
The government’s ruthless, distorted idea of ‘competition’ will impoverish the whole academy and everyone in it. Thomas Docherty muses on a prescient 40-year-old speech warning of the trap at the end...
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Prometheus
Three decades after confronting our anxieties about reproduction in Alien, Sir Ridley Scott returns to the universe of his classic sci-fi horror film. Davina Quinlivan considers the franchise and...
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Research Intelligence - For all their sakes, and science's too
Response to EU law will spur the UK's leading role in reducing animal testing. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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From Where I Sit - Female role model
"We enjoy your classes," my seminar students said to me, "because you're not a real teacher." When I asked what they meant, they told me about the "real" classes of certain, named male teachers. "...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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The week in higher education
• Sharp-eyed readers who wondered why, in our 17 May issue, we reported that only one of two academics at Queen Mary, University of London who wrote a critical letter to The Lancet had apparently...
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Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature
To fully appreciate great works of art one must be tuned into history, discovers Mark Berry
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Means, ends and endings
Alan Ryan on commencement season in the US: this time, it’s political
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31 May 2012
Rat race to the bottom - Unhealthy competition gnaws away at university values
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THE 100 Under 50 university rankings: results
New league table aims to identify the rising stars of the global academy. John Morgan reports