Devastating disengagement
The University of Sussex's proposal to close its Centre for Community Engagement seems to conflict with the institution's stated aims to widen access and to engage more with the local community. The...
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Detect and instruct
It would be surprising if many academics believed that there was a "silver bullet" that would eliminate plagiarism through a detection system alone ("Don't count on a 'silver bullet'", 19 January)....
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Compound the error
In response to the shortage of helium for his research, Ray Dolan, a professor at University College London's Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, suggests that in the long run it might be...
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Rich vision, pretty pattern (1 of 2)
The anonymous writer of "Poverty of vision pays well" (Letters, 19 January) underestimates the depth of each vice-chancellor's vision, which today far exceeds a mere preoccupation with league tables....
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Rich vision, pretty pattern (2 of 2)
Four profiles of vice-chancellors' policy advisers ("Who let them in?", 19 January): all young[ish] and female. Hardly a scientific sample, I admit, but the typical UK vice-chancellor: old[er] and...
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Accurate role models as hard to find as the Holy Grail itself
One professor has had enough of Hollywood's clichéd depictions of faculty, says Jon Marcus
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Appointments
University of PortsmouthAndy ThorpeAn economist whose previous research has focused on such indelicate topics as methane emissions from animals has been appointed associate dean for research at the...
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Odds and quads
These images are taken from an ornately designed leather-bound scrapbook, now in the collection of the Humanities Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University, that Jane Webb Loudon (1807-58) seems...
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Research Intelligence - Renaissance man's word to the wise
UCL's vice-provost urges research-intensives to enlighten as well as inform. Paul Jump reports
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Leader: Battle won, but maybe not the war
With the government poised to shelve its HE bill, opponents of pro-market plans have scored a victory, however partial or fleeting
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From where I sit - Lift off, in more ways than one
Financial reports in the media around the world take a remarkably similar approach, or so it seems from China. The slick graphics that daily illustrate the swings in fortune of the FTSE or Hang Seng...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
University of HullSlavery isn't historyA project will address one of the contemporary world's most pressing - yet often overlooked - human rights concerns. In 2007, many UK schools marked the 200th...
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Off Piste - Long walks to freedom
Jeremy Black extols the physical - and psychological - benefits of a country stroll
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The week in higher education
• The University and College Union may suspend its work-to-rule industrial action on pension cuts in pre-1992 universities after talks with employers. Sally Hunt, the UCU general secretary, wrote to...