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InternationalisationSpanning the globe by degreesMore than 1,600 organisations around the world offer UK higher education awards, a study has found. While 157 universities and other institutions in...
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Publish or be damned
Pressure to have research accepted by the 'right' journals in order to get on damages scholarship, warns Dennis Tourish
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Taking a leap in the dark with a radical experiment on funding
Now the fee rise seems certain, Peter Scott scrutinises the effects of the marketisation of higher education on supply and demand
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A World of Kin Unkind
Hytner's Hamlet seethes with family betrayals and Soviet-era political intrigue, writes Peter J. Smith
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The Pick - Home is where the art is
Europe House32 Smith Square, LondonEurope House, in the heart of Westminster, has just opened as the London base of the European Commission and the European Parliament - ironically, in a building...
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Diary
LondonNever the Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts)Since the 1960s, the Camden Arts Centre has been one of the cutting-edge spaces for contemporary art in London. This new exhibition,...
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Great brain breakthrough
In what is being described as "a major research development", our very own Professor of Brain Studies, Professor E.C. Grunwald, has found evidence which "goes some way" to confirming the commonly...
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Leader: A time for giving and for healing
Fees reform has divided the academy, but the sector can agree on something: it deserves support, including donations
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This is customer services
Tim Birkhead fears for the effect that higher fees will have on teaching
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Research intelligence - Rip it up and start again
Journal articles are an outdated way of sharing scientific research, says open-access advocate. 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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From where I sit - When it's who, not what, you know
When professors Rao Yi and Shi Yigong claimed in a recent issue of Science that cronyism was blighting China's research culture, a spokesman for the Ministry of Science and Technology was quick to...
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Tour of beauty
Artist Rooms enlightens places other exhibitions do not reach. Alex Danchev lauds Anthony d'Offay's efforts to bring art to all
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Diana Leonard, 1941-2010
A leading feminist activist, sociologist and educator has died.Diana Leonard was born in Trinidad on 13 December 1941 but moved to England after the Second World War, where she was educated at...
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There are alternatives to higher tuition fees (1 of 2)
The hike in tuition fees up to a ceiling of £9,000 has rightly been challenged by young people, union leaders, academics, the heads of secondary schools and colleges, parents and a miscellany of...