Odds and quads - 13 June 2013
This wall forms part of the third and last Merzbau (or sculptural installation), constructed by the celebrated collagist Kurt Schwitters in his Lake District barn. It is now on permanent display in...
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1 in 10: women still far behind at professor level
Hesa data show just one in 10 at the grade is female at some institutions. Jack Grove reports
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IPPR reveals likely cost of Labour’s £6,000 fee plans
IPPR report implies that party’s £6,000 fees policy may prove unworkable. John Morgan reports
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Hey, minister, leave those teachers alone
Michael Gove is an ideologue whose attacks on the academy are a smokescreen for the damage caused by his radical policies, argues Martin McQuillan
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Erotic Awards 2013 honour for Open University academic
Psychology lecturer picks up gong for her work on sex and relationship advice
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Globalisation debate ponders strategies for developing countries
Diverse university models and academic freedom are key to resilience, participants hear
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NYU scholar is taking out the trash
Anthropologist gets her hands dirty with Big Apple’s sanitation workers
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Shelter from the storm: happy birthday, Cara
House of Lords event hears how council and the scholars it has saved have enriched the UK
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Blinkered belief systems
They wanted to believe, and so they believed. That seems to be the consensus among critics of the policy called austerity, including the anti-austerian, Nobel prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz...
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Are there extremist ‘swamps’ on campus that need draining?
Woolwich murder reignites debate over university radicalisation
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Dear Michael Gove: a letter from a ‘bad academic’
Teacher-turned-scholar Jon Berry sends a message to the education minister on the theory behind best practice
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Welcome breaches of discipline
Let’s penetrate the academic boundaries, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Home truths
Christopher Phelps argues for the benefits of immigration, but in the wider labour market, as Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has observed, migration of unskilled labour leads to lower...
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Workload overload
When I read “Eight days a week” (6 June) I was particularly struck by the account of Philip Moriarty, professor of physics at the University of Nottingham, who said that in order to make up for the...
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Learn from Met record or get stuck on repeat
How well acquainted is Michael Shattock with London Metropolitan University? (“‘The best board I ever sat on’”, 30 May.) In drawing parallels between HBOS and the university, Shattock quotes Sir Alan...