Past is prologue
Critics, take note: the archives teach us that the academy's 'golden age' had plenty of commonalities with today, Nick Hillman says
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Goodbye to dropouts
"This is a real breakthrough!"That was the relatively ecstatic response of Nancy Harbinger, our Deputy Head of Student Experience, to the news that the Big Four audit firm Deloitte has developed a...
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Leader: The Tories should like it (not a lot)
It's no trick: removing sector-sponsored overseas students from net migration data would be in the national interest
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Research Intelligence - Keep wise council - but not seven
Calls to thin RCUK ranks point to coordinated benefits of slimline solutions. Paul Jump reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Boston College dispute moves to appeals court
A transatlantic wrangle over whether material collected in an oral history project can be used as evidence in a criminal investigation has moved to a US appeals court.
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The week in higher education
• Sociology featured heavily in most media outlets this week, although it was down to research showing that stripping skills are on the slide because of the recession. Researchers at the University...
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From where I sit - Filtering Bologna's muddy waters
When higher education ministers from 47 countries of the European continent meet in Bucharest on 26- April to pronounce on the next steps for the Bologna Process and the construction of the European...
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Odds and quads
This sample comes from the laboratory where Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) left a number of glass plates coated with bacteria overnight in 1928. It was this that led him to stumble upon the...
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Appointments
Council for Assisting Refugee AcademicsStephen WordsworthThe Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (Cara) has named the former British ambassador to Serbia as its executive director. Stephen...
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Children of the revolution
For the late Julia Swindells, radicalism and friendship were always intimately linked. Here, she describes the youthful influences that led her down a political path
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London Met links with stag-do firm
Master's course offers expert oversight from 'spa with strippers' tour operator. Jack Grove reports
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Bound for glory
Alan Ryan on the faith in education that inspired ‘Great Books’ collections
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Meet the Romans with Mary Beard
There’s more to the ancient world than dusty toff-on-toff talk, ‘professor of bloody Classics’ tells Matthew Reisz
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Wider open spaces
Freely accessed papers are simply points in a constellation of scientific communication with the public, says Alice Bell