Stick close to the nest
Peter Brady asks what would happen to UK universities if many British students decided to study abroad ("Flock may change course", 15 September). We must also ask what this would mean for the...
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Statistically insignificant
So yet another league table based on partial and inaccurate data - ie, the almost meaningless graduate employment figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency ("Salary premium from post-92s...
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Ironic, don't you think?
In "Taking Lithuanian leave" (8 September) Malcolm Gillies offers a bizarre neoliberal view of consumer culture in a higher education context: "Can we afford such generous holidays any more?"; "Will...
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Prosaic treatment
A competition to encourage medical students to write poetry is no doubt admirable ("Evoke Calliope to ease the brutalising disease", 22 September). Unfortunately, none of the winning entries is a...
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TV reviews: Fresh Meat & Educating Essex
Campus comedy may be stuck in the past but the school hall is full of innovation, says Gary Day
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Film review: Melancholia
Melancholia obliterates all around it, figuratively and literally, in Lars Von Trier's latest film, says Philip Dodd
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Ludwik Finkelstein, 1929-2011
Ludwik Finkelstein survived exile in Siberia at an early age to become one of the longest-serving members of staff at City University London and a noted engineer.Professor Finkelstein was born in...
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Appointments
University of British ColumbiaSarah OttoWhen Sarah Otto, a professor in the department of zoology at the University of British Columbia, received an email telling her that she had won a "genius grant...
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Odds and quads
This collection of 29 horses' teeth was assembled by Louis Auzoux (1797-1880), a French doctor who made models of humans, animals and plants for use in teaching medicine and anatomy.
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Research intelligence - There's a lot more to it than that
Advocates say 'enriched content' represents the future of the scholarly article. Andy Wright reports
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Leader: Take your money elsewhere
So the UK tells foreign students with its visa regime. Australia once did too, but it has changed its tune to hang on to a rich trade
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From where I sit - Twists and turns on road to reform
When the South University of Science and Technology of China decided to break the rules last year and recruit 45 students without having permission to do so - and without requiring them to take the...
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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
Coventry UniversityAcademy al frescoA sustainable £32 million student services building has been opened, featuring natural ventilation and solar water heating. Coventry University officially opened...
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Off Piste - Ticket to glide
Circling hilltop castles and seeking out thermals, occasionally shadowed by a sociable buzzard - Paul Nurse attests to the joys of taking to the skies on the slenderest of wings