Odds and quads - 4 April 2013
The Oracle by Reg Butler is one of five original works in the University of Hertfordshire’s art collection.The 1952 work was originally intended to grace the entrance hall of Hatfield Technical...
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Are universities as open as they should be?
Universities are required to be open to scrutiny because they are publicly funded. But how far should it go? When it comes to their internal business, David Matthews discovers that competition may be...
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Positive internal marketing needed to combat image of ‘mediocrity’
Universities must address perception among staff of institutions’ ‘mediocre performance’, hears David Matthews
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Halt fraud before it hits the headlines
Universities should vet research outputs before they get to the publishing (and scandal) stage, say Roger Watson and Mark Hayter
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Offer sandwiches for a taste of work
The UK must build work experience into higher education with the same vigour as it did in the 1950s, Quintin McKellar argues
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Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy
Ervand Abrahamian ponders how Muslim clerics seized and retained control of modern-day Persia
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Leader - Why too much knowledge may be a dangerous thing
Institutions have a delicate line to tread in being open about their organisations versus the pressures of competition
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The week in higher education
A Cardiff-born expatriate lecturer has won fame in East Asia after reaching the semi-finals of China’s Got Talent for his rendition of revolutionary songs dressed in a Mao-style uniform. Iain Inglis...
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Mediterranean retreat
The University of East London is closing its campus in Cyprus after just six months due to poor recruitment. Meanwhile, the University of Central Lancashire is keeping a close eye on whether the...
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Publishing and copyright licences: academics opt to keep control
Academics prefer to publish their research under the most restrictive forms of copyright, a survey has suggested.More than half of 13,000 authors who have recently published in Taylor &...
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Odds and quads
The Oracle by Reg Butler is one of five original works in the University of Hertfordshire’s art collection.
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Campus round-up
Wearing wellResearch by a university’s neuroscientists has inspired catwalk fashion for a unique scheme. The Changing Minds project - involving neuroscientists at the University of Southampton and...
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Nation of Islam
Ervand Abrahamian considers how Muslim clerics seized and retained control of modern-day Persia
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Dulce et decorum est
The architects of the Iraq misadventure should be made to read this book, avers James T. Crouse
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A Life in Education and Architecture: Mary Beaumont Medd by Catherine Burke
This is a generous, well-crafted review of the life of Bradford-born public sector architect Mary Medd (née Crowley, 1907-2005). As a means of gaining insight into how to design schools, Catherine...