The high watermark of the Anglo-American academy
US and UK reign over the ‘global research university’ will be overthrown by the East’s rise and mainland Europe’s resurgence, expert predicts. John Morgan reports
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Gloucestershire vice-chancellor steps down
Broadfoot says institution is ‘on the road to recovery’ as she announces early retirement. Melanie Newman reports
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Overseas students ‘are not cash cows’
Universities warned that they must show international students that they are wanted for more than their fee income. John Morgan reports
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Government announces medical research review in bid to cut red tape
Independent look at regulation is needed to bring greater coordination and ‘freedom from unnecessary bureaucracy’, Zoë Corbyn reports
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Budget windfall for STEM places and spin-offs
Chancellor promises £305 million for ‘key subjects’ and commercial initiatives. Melanie Newman reports
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Career strategies
Many of the UK's 'accidental' administrators think that their work is not valued and that their US counterparts enjoy higher status. John Morgan considers what gives the professional edge
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My Eureka Moment: Listening for the quiet voices
Lin Foxhall's rural childhood enabled her to see the significance of studying the lives of people traditionally overlooked by historians and archaeologists
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Heated discussions
The email conversations at the heart of 'Climategate' suggest a campaign to nobble journals, marginalise climate-change sceptics and withhold data from other researchers, says Andrew Montford
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The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-being
Basing politics on what makes people happy is a good thing, isn't it? Maybe, says Paul Stenner
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Michelangelo's Finger: An Exploration of Everyday Transcendence
Raymond Tallis, gerontologist and philosopher, has something in common with Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. He grabs readers as they pass and regales them with extraordinary accounts of impressive...
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The Canon: Poetics. Aristotle
Aristotle's Poetics is an analysis of the principles of dramatic writing from the 4th century BC. Despite its age, anyone with a passing appreciation of narrative structure probably knows more about...
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Update the standard operating procedure
Surgery allows no room for error. Surgeon and researcher Atul Gawande prescribes the use of checklists to get it right. Matthew Reisz reports
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Revenge of the Forbidden City: The Suppression of the Falungong in China, 1999-2005
André Laliberté ponders the party's clampdown on an organisation that seems to pose little threat
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES- Franchising GloballyBy Ilan Alon, George D. and Harriet W. Cornell professor of international business, Rollins College, Florida. Palgrave...
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Book of the week: The Task of the Critic
Willy Maley salutes a live-wire intellect, part terrier, part trickster