Put down the trowel, step away from the bricks and mortar
Critics attack campus building frenzy in the midst of swingeing budget cuts. Jon Marcus reports
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Appointments
University of New South WalesMichelle SimmonsA quantum computation expert has been honoured as New South Wales' Scientist of the Year at the NSW Government's Science and Engineering Awards 2011....
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Odds and quads
This brass desk set embellished with ammunition shells belonged to Lieutenant General George Francis Milne (1866-1948), Commander-in-Chief of the British Salonika Army during the First World War.
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Research intelligence - Oh Lords, please don't let me be misunderstood
EPSRC heads see no contradiction in peer review policy, but critics remain puzzled. Paul Jump writes
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From where I sit - Ethical engagement
In Mexico, shortly after Felipe Calderon took the presidential office in December 2006, he launched a major crackdown on the country's drug cartels. Since then, it has been estimated that about 45,...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
University of GloucestershireSave the planet (and some cash)Plans for young people to help with projects promoting environmental sustainability in exchange for a discount on tuition fees will be...
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The week in higher education
• An open letter to The Daily Telegraph on 7 December from nearly 500 professors lamented that the government's higher education White Paper would allow "private, for-profit companies substantial...
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Thinking of a Master Plan
Alan Ryan on how California’s famed system might work in the UK
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15 December 2011
Blooming marvellous - Dutch plan to grow prize specimens
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Leader: Together, they are stronger
To compete on the world stage, universities are increasingly considering mergers as a way to enhance status and expertise
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Conceptual sculpture as popular resource (1 of 2)
Having, pre-retirement, been an academic in what is now called "digital humanities", I much appreciated Matthew Reisz's sapient article on the current state of play ("Surfdom", 8 December). Beyond...
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Conceptual sculpture as popular resource (2 of 2)
Matthew Reisz's apparent irritation with the "democratic" aspirations of the Online Chopin Variorum Edition might have been lessened had he troubled to understand whom the OCVE serves and how it does...
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Mad Men don't innovate
The i-Map study ("i-Map finds too many weeds in the portfolio garden", 8 December) found an order of waste in UK universities' new course development, but subjecting new course ideas to conventional...