No regrets, says outgoing EPSRC chief David Delpy
‘Thick skin’ helped research council boss take the flak for controversial shaping capability measures
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Berkeley’s Wikipedian helps unlock scholarly silos
California institution is first university to hire its own online encyclopedia editor in residence
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Scholarships? Aid? Let’s make a deal
US institutions, students and athletes must strike the right arrangements to stay afloat, says Alan Ryan
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British Surrealism Unlocked: Works from the Sherwin Collection
A GP’s art collection offers a comprehensive view of an overlooked movement
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Mike Cole, Liz Gloyn, Gareth A. Jones, Roger Morgan and R. C. Richardson...
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Reading Celebrity Gossip Magazines, by Andrea M. McDonnell
Christina Scharff on an exploration of the pleasure, curiosity and guilt that accompany this pastime
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Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race and Imperial Culture, by Saree Makdisi
Claire Chambers on how the national imaginings of the English changed during the Romantic period separating out notions of class and race
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The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus, by Mitchell Thomashow
A US approach to environmental integrity offers useful pointers for the UK, says David Maguire
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Birkbeck’s shorter part-time degrees appeal to teenagers
University boosted by three-year model as young flock to evening classes
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Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 puts fledgling Chinese media in spotlight
The performance of the domestic press has fallen short of expectations, says Hong Bing
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New name for ‘Bottom Russellers’
Our Deputy Head of Brand Management, Georgina Edsel, has joined the national search for a new name for those low-ranking members of the Russell Group recently described as “Bottom Russellers” by Sir...
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Our benchmark for best practice? Ourselves
Universities can improve their procedures by studying themselves instead of others, says Stephen Yorkstone
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Cardiff University forced to hold fire on Griff Rhys Jones
‘Indignant’ academics block comic’s ‘preordained’ appointment as the university’s chancellor
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Let us learn in our own language, says Algerian scholar
Use of English and French in Middle Eastern universities creates a divisive elite, argues Inam Bioud
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Uncapped system: support for expansion in Australia
Review calls for extension of policy to further education and private providers