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BrandingTVU maps out a new identityThames Valley University is to change its name: from 6 April it will be known as the University of West London. The rebranding was delayed because of a disagreement...
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More ferrets, fewer sponges
Treat students like adults and bring back dissent, scholar urges academy. Matthew Reisz writes
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Hot buttons, cool heads
Michael Boylan on strategies to engage, empower and educate students when discussing controversial issues
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Honeypots of the world
In the search for new proxies to inform the World University Rankings, overseas collaboration is a real contender, says Jonathan Adams
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Arts review: Let Newton Be!
An imaginative play is a reminder that Newton was as interested in religion as he was in science, says Rob Iliffe
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Diary
DumfriesLand Girls and Lumber JillsThe Women's Land Army (WLA) and Women's Timber Corps (WTC) were created in 1917 to help meet growing wartime demands for home production. Yet it was during the...
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The Pick - A Ballad of Love and Death: Pre-Raphaelite Photography in Great Britain, 1848-1875
A Ballad of Love and Death: Pre-Raphaelite Photography in Great Britain, 1848-1875Musée d'Orsay, ParisThe Pre-Raphaelites are so parochially English - and often so second-rate - that their...
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A rattling good read
In common with a number of other leading scientists, our Deputy Head of Behavioural Science, Dr T. Mays, has spoken of the important role played by the humanities in the development of a fulfilled...
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Leader: Guardians of their own future
Malcolm Gillies' report on university governance, the fruit of bitter personal experience, offers a way forward for the sector
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Research intelligence - Variations on eight themes
The architect of the research plan at Leicester's College of Medicine explains its successes to Paul Jump
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Industry welcomes magical transformation of Disney interns
Students say the Disney College Program teaches skills they can't learn in class. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
Coverage of the University and College Union's strike action struggled to judge the numbers involved, or its impact. The Daily Mirror said on 24 March that institutions "will be crippled...as tens of...
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From where I sit - Doctorates for everyone
Question: When is a doctorate not a doctorate? Answer: When it's a master's degree.So here's the thing: government education ministers in Australia are seriously considering a proposal to award...
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Paul Stiff, 1949-2011
A leading typographer and design historian who dropped out of university as an undergraduate has died.Born in Middlesbrough on 1 August 1949, Paul Stiff abandoned his degree course in sociology at...
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Ignorance wins the day
Felipe Fernández-Armesto fears for the future of a leading comprehensive