Invasion of privacy
Even recalcitrant scholars can’t escape the mobile’s reach, says Sally Feldman
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1 September 2011
Second life - What happens when a single letter changes an author’s sex?
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Memory failure detected
A coalition of the willing is battling legal, logistical and technical obstacles to archive the riches of the mercurial World Wide Web for the benefit of future scholars. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Time to put lifelong learning back at the heart of ‘civic universities’
Universities will reap commercial and academic benefits by tapping into the skills of older people on lifelong learning courses, an academic has argued.
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Web marketing grows, but universities urged not to abandon personal approach
A major survey of online marketing to prospective international students has found that a “one size fits all” approach is unlikely to succeed, and that, for universities, a web presence is not a...
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Inside Higher Ed: Sociologists in Sin City
By Serena Golden, for Inside Higher Ed
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V-c’s ‘dismissive’ attitude to support staff provokes union ire
The vice-chancellor of the University of Northampton has been accused of “dismissing” the work of administrative and support staff after redundancy plans were announced.
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Fee rise prompts four out of five pupils to reconsider university plans
Most pupils planning to attend university from 2012 onwards are reconsidering their options due to the increase in tuition fees, according to a new poll.
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Aberdeen breaks cover, announcing £9,000 fees for English, Welsh and Northern Irish
The University of Aberdeen has become the first Scottish university to announce its tuition fees for undergraduates from the rest of the UK from 2012-13, charging £9,000.
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PhD to be investigated amid further suspicion of research misconduct
Imperial College London has announced it is reviewing the award of a PhD to a former student after it emerged that the paper that formed the basis of his thesis is to be retracted.
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Majority do not believe a degree is worth £9k, opinion poll suggests
Less than a third of British adults think a university education is worth £9,000 a year, while 59 per cent think two-year degrees are a good money-saving solution, according to an opinion poll.
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The End: Hitler's Germany, 1944-45
The Führer and his absolute power forced Germans to fight on when all was lost, Jill Stephenson finds
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Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and Her Followers
Beliefs that now seem delusional made more sense in a doomsday context, says June Purvis
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Richard Bentley: Poetry and Enlightenment
When J.H. Monk published his great Life of Richard Bentley in 1830, he could count on his readers' general knowledge of the scholarship he discussed. That knowledge has been largely lost, and in...
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Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages
Hamlet, David Bevington concludes, "helps us to understand ourselves and who we are socially". It's quite a claim, but one that this slender vessel ably justifies. Bevington synthesises the Hamlet...