Ring out the old
"Policemen look so young these days"; thus said my ancient mother. Now it is editors ("Times Higher Education announces new editor", 16 February). Surely you have not stooped to Photoshopping, like...
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Film review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Will Brooker is seduced by a romcom with a starry cast of actors of a certain age who give powerful, sexy performances
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TV review: The Mrs Bradley Mysteries: The Rising of the Moon
Adela Bradley, a glamorous, more saucy version of Miss Marple, is brought vividly to life, says Gary Day
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Don Varley, 1924-2012
For more than 40 years, Don Varley was a key member of the academic and student community at the University of Nottingham, as a senior lecturer, vice-dean of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences,...
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Cap and gown learning on a shoestring budget
With novel credentials being developed and employers seeing the value of low-cost study based on open courseware, Jon Marcus asks if the bricks-and-mortar elite will end up on the wrong side of...
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Appointments
University of BathDavid MillerA newly appointed professor of sociology at the University of Bath aims to analyse the impact of terrorism studies as part of his new role. David Miller, previously...
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Campus round-up
Queen Mary, University of LondonRising in the EastA £36 million graduate centre is to be built after being given the go-ahead by planners. Set to open in 2015, the centre at Queen Mary, University of...
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Research Intelligence - Collaboration is an essential procedure
Researchers, industry and NHS must deliver results, Academy of Medical Sciences' head tells Paul Jump
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REF's effort to make knowledge visible may have cloudy results
Impact assessments will shape behaviours - but not necessarily in desired directions, argue Katherine Smith and Nasar Meer
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From where I sit - P.S. Ich liebe dich
The German media have found themselves irresistibly attracted to a student who wants to turn flirting into a subject for academic analysis by introducing his own seminar on "live flirting training"...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Off Piste - Lesser Spotted - Well, that's just the professors
Physicist Athene Donald's pleasure in people-watching may owe something to a childhood spent observing birds of all kinds as they soared over city heaths and icy coastal mudflats
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The week in higher education
• Two teenagers ruffled feathers at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills by bringing a legal challenge against this year's tuition-fee hike. Lawyers for Callum Hurley, from Peterborough...
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Time is the essence
Malcolm Gillies argues that to succeed, universities must be of the moment
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23 February 2012
Top-up credits - Open courseware and the challenge to traditional campus education