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Research Intelligence - Bright young things with time to shine
Dale fellowships aim to empower new scholars to ask 'really difficult questions'. Paul Jump reports
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Leader: Bread, not political poses
By favouring grandstanding over academics' worries for the profession and their future, the UCU risks irrelevance
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From where I sit - We're scholars, not politicians
The scene is a Bucharest ballroom, decorated in the bronze and purples of vanished empires. Sir Peter Scott, professor of higher education at the Institute of Education, University of London, has...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
University of EssexMind controlPeople with severe physical disabilities who find it difficult or impossible to use joystick-operated wheelchairs may benefit from a new study. The Robotics Research...
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The week in higher education
• To the list of contributions that higher education has made to UK society, add vomit-inducing two-for-one drinks promotions and the drunks urinating on the high street on a Friday night. Phil...
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Are radical journals selling out?
Well, they’re not doing badly. But in a world in which capitalism is in crisis, the Left is moribund, activists are slick professionals and rebellion drives sales, Alastair Bonnett envisages a new...
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Kropotkin's heirs apparent
Alan Ryan on Occupy Wall Street, a refreshingly rational anarchist movement
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3 November 2011
Critical vanguard - Radical journals, maverick voices and the search for solutions
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Bloggers raise alarm over sleep of reason
The standfirst of "You can't tell me anything" ( October) says that "the gleefully bull-headed ignorance shown by politicians, bloggers and others" suggests that "scientific evidence and scholarly...
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Intelligence agency
Which?'s intention to move into the world of higher education information provision has caused something of a stir (The week in higher education, October).We know that choosing a university is a...
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Misshapen and incapable
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council claims to have consulted the scientific community regarding its "shaping capability" policy aimed at maintaining the UK's global research...
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Galaxy quest starts small
It was good to see "citizen science" featured in Times Higher Education ("Powered by the people", 20 October), but the article's claim that the vast majority of initiatives in this area are American-...