Brazil invests to expand tropic of learning into rural areas...
...but some question the focus and quality in plans to add more than 800,000 places, writes Paul Jump
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
University of RoehamptonValuable depositsLemur droppings may hold the key to the survival of Madagascar's unique rainforests. A new study by academics at the University of Roehampton found that the...
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Off Piste - The Anarchic view from the hutch
When an anthropologist and her partner were arrested on the eve of the royal wedding for planning an anti-monarchy mock execution, the incident ended up on YouTube - and the footage revealed concern...
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The week in higher education
• First the dodgy dossier, now the dodgy doctorate: Tony Blair and unreliable material are inadvertently together again. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Mu'ammer Gaddafi, sought out Mr Blair's...
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Taking Lithuanian leave
Malcolm Gillies asks: how much time off do we really need or deserve?
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8 September 2011
Dead as a… - Is the writing on the wall for journalism?
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THE Scholarly Web
Ambitious undergraduates are aware of it, PhD students fear it and applicants often despair of it: competition in the academic job market is very tough indeed.
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Act to fix black hole in national memory
Helen Hockx-Yu, head of web archiving at the British Library, comments that it is "about time that the measures needed to implement rules for the legal deposit of web publications are put into place...
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Simply lacking in expertise (1 of 2)
What an extraordinarily unpleasant letter from David Marsland ("A conspiracy against academic freedom", 1 September).The main objection of the historians to which he refers to David Starkey's...
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Simply lacking in expertise (2 of 2)
The BBC should surely be praised rather than blamed for inviting David Starkey to appear on their shows. As well as being its token non-leftist, his credentials as a historian can hardly be doubted....
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NSS fitness hardly a given
If you were to believe some parts of the academy, you would think that the National Student Survey is widely viewed as a positive force, providing useful information to both prospective students and...
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OIA remains the final refuge
I write to dissociate the Improving Dispute Resolution Advisory Service in the strongest possible terms from any suggestion that we consider the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher...
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Clip Swan's wings
Upon opening last week's copy of Times Higher Education, I flicked to the Letters pages eager to read the undoubted responses to the plethora of articles on equality and diversity in the 25 August...
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When the boasts come in
Jeremy Black deplores the grandiose claims routinely made by academic book blurbs ("Greatest story ever told", 1 September), but this is just one instance of the boasting that now echoes through so...