Measuring up
The letter commenting on university rankings and men's endowment no doubt has been reported favourably by the media in every country ("Bunch of rankers", 11 October). After all, we all want to come...
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Fred flag flying
Regarding "Shiny happy periodicals" (15 November): thank God for Fred Inglis!Susan Powell, Chair of medieval texts and culture, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of...
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Scholar finds output written in the stars
Beware online misrepresentation, says academic mistakenly linked to tarot book. Chris Parr reports
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ESRC proposes a whole new way of thinking
ESRC offers grants for ambition
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Three wishes: NUS urges trio of loans to help poor postgraduates
End ‘immoral’ barriers to access on grounds of wealth, union urges. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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Small, medium or large
Is there an optimum size for research labs? Are larger labs more prone to research misconduct and harder to manage? Paul Jump investigates
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Firm footing
Technicians, the academy’s ‘Cinderellas’, play vital roles and deserve proper recognition and support, argue Kelly Vere and Roger Murphy
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McKinsey: rankings ought to show who is on the job
Company’s education leader calls for greater focus on graduate employability. David Matthews reports
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Research intelligence - A shift from tactics to strategy
It’s time for physics to make a big bang, the woman from the ministry tells Elizabeth Gibney
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
• Lord Patten of Barnes, embattled chairman of the BBC Trust and chancellor of the University of Oxford, is under mounting pressure to quit the corporation, The Sun reported on 14 November. The...
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A voyage round my father
To mark the 10th anniversary of the film-maker Karel Reisz’s death, his son, Times Higher Education staff writer Matthew Reisz, examines academics’ appraisals of his father’s work, and reflects on...
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Leader: Goldilocks had the right idea
Rather than assuming bigger is better, we must trial research laboratory effectiveness before concluding which size is just right
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From Where I Sit - Silence on Europe is deafening
Few stories have so dominated the news in recent years as Europe's sovereign debt crisis. We have been faced with a torrent of bad news and warnings ranging from worries about contagion within the...
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Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes
Virginia Trimble considers supermassive creative destruction at the Universe’s galactic centres