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Janet Fluellen, our Director of Curriculum Development, has announced that Poppleton will "definitely not" be following the example of the University of Winchester and introducing a new degree in...

Janet Fluellen, our Director of Curriculum Development, has announced that Poppleton will "definitely not" be following the example of the University of Winchester and introducing a new degree in...

A professor who considered himself "a goalkeeper pretending to be an academic", after turning to academe following a sporting injury, has died.Philip M. Taylor, of the University of Leeds, was the...

Gary Day enjoys a feast of detective fiction over Christmas, made all too poignant by real events
Duncan Wu enjoys the intensity and obsession in a portrayal of a ballerina losing touch with reality
By mixing independence and collaboration, a new centre expects to find novel ways of coping with climate change. Neha Popat reports
All teachers have faced hard crowds; bored, tired, restless students who would clearly prefer to be just about anywhere else than in your classroom.One of my toughest sells was a late Friday...
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The festive period was not kind to the man with responsibility for England's universities. Having been stung by undercover reporters, Vince Cable, the business secretary, may have regretted his pre-...

Campus watchmen - How far should universities go in policing extremism?
The “academy in crisis” emerged as a key theme on the first day of the Modern Language Association of America conference, as thousands of humanities scholars gathered in California for the annual...
This year looks to be one in which divisions in the sector widen, leaving no one representing the needs of the academy as a whole
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the real punchline of his diplomatic incident
Lord Bhattacharyya's vision of the future fuels Warwick Manufacturing Group, reports Paul Jump
Analysis shows that defectors find happiness with Conservatives, not Labour. Simon Baker reports
Academics at the University of Cambridge have been praised for their staunch defence of academic freedom after research on bank-card security was criticised by an industry group.Melanie Johnson,...