Diary
SheffieldGuy Ben-Ner: SpiesSince the early 1990s, Israeli artist Guy Ben-Ner has filmed a series of videos starring himself and his family: domestic dramas taking place within the intimacy of their...
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Brand on the run
Our Head of Brand Development, Norman Bovril, has responded forcefully to the news that the Times Higher Education Reputation Rankings place Poppleton as the 8,914th highest-regarded university in...
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The rest was silence
Inept alumni communications derail the desire to give, says Tim Birkhead
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Research intelligence - Empty buckets or pure gold?
Open-access advocates ponder weak repository growth as publishers restate dire warnings. Paul Jump reports
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The week in higher education
He has hogged the headlines for weeks, was sacked from a sitcom for which he was paid $2 million (£1.5 million) an episode, and was photographed drinking "tiger blood" while waving a machete on the...
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Leader: Work of infinite value
Science alone cannot get to the heart of what makes us human, which is why the humanities and social sciences matter so much
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From where I sit - After the quake: we shall carry on
When the earthquake hits I am dozing with a pile of academic journals on my lap.It's spring vacation here in Japan and with university entrance examinations completed I've got a month to catch up on...
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The Pick - Shakespeare's Globe
From first base to learning space
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Jack Forbes, 1934-2011
Jack Forbes, a pioneer of Native American studies, was not afraid to take "unpopular and risky" decisions, and helped to found the first Native American college in California.Professor Forbes was...
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In this climate, USS plans are generous
In a letter to Times Higher Education on 10 March ("Employers, it's Acas or action - your choice"), Sally Hunt, the University and College Union's general secretary, threatens strike action to...
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Rationalise to survive
Earlier this month, 681 "deeply concerned" academics from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge wrote an open letter to The Independent newspaper, claiming that they had been forced to "fly blind...
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Left speechless
Can someone explain why none of the three research excellence framework panellists selected to represent Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American studies on the modern languages panel has any previous...
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Let evidence be your guide
Responses to the Bailey Review on the Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Childhood led by Reg Bailey, chief executive of the Mothers' Union, are due this week.The report promises to address...
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Substance isn't sinister
In his article about whether or not Alfred Toepfer was a Nazi advocate ("Tainted money", 10 March), Richard Evans reports that "(Michael) Pinto-Duschinsky notes that a subsidiary of the Toepfer...
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Sting theory
As a zoologist (and a pedant), I was intrigued by the wasps' nest image in "Odds and Quads" (10 March). First, the nest is upside down. Second, the picture has no indication of scale - it is...