Higher recognition
The Times Higher's news editor, Phil Baty, was commended this week at the Paul Foot Awards for investigative and campaigning journalism. The first prize for the annual award, established by The...
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Breast cancer quest
A new research unit is to be set up at Edinburgh University to develop treatments for breast cancer patients. The Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit, due to open next year, will be based at the...
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Fishy enterprise
Researchers at Stirling University have developed a new system for farming fish that makes use of existing agricultural buildings and infrastructure. The prototype is the result of a collaborative...
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Reptiles go way back
Newly discovered fossil footprints offer the earliest evidence for the evolution of reptiles. The discovery by Bristol University's Howard Falcon-Lang of 315 million-year-old fossils in New Brunswick...
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Poor sites make Wiki the winner
Three out of four university websites fail to provide basic information about the institutions, potentially putting off would-be students, a firm of internet marketing specialists has said. As the...
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Fraud scandal exposes South Korean malaise
Ineffectual regulation and a desperate need for qualifications are fuelling corruption. Michael Fitzpatrick reports. South Korea's obsession with academic pedigree has exposed its higher education...
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World Encompassed
Jo'burg students in tuition fee clash Students at a South African university have protested to the institution about police brutality in quelling a demonstration over tuition fee rises. Johannesburg...
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Emmanuel lights way on self-governance
Decision-making rightly belongs to the academics who undertake teaching and research, says Terence Kealey. How should a vice-chancellor run a university? Since the Western university is a thousand...
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'Do you honestly think the YouTube generation is remotely interested
I don't quite know how to say this. The thing is, we're just not getting on any more. I don't know why. The spark seems to have gone out of our relationship. We've let things limp along when it would...
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Keep the green moral agenda off campus
'Sustainability literacy' may undermine our tradition of critical inquiry, argues Jim Butcher. Moves are afoot to ensure that all graduates are "sustainability- literate". But what does this mean?...
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Peep's Diary
For whom the bell didn't toll Rumour has it German chemist Gerhard Ertl was so confident of winning the Nobel prize that he turned up at his office just before 11.30am, the time at which the Swedes...
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All shades of a wide white world
'Whiteness studies' provides new ways of thinking about race inequalities through examining privilege. John Preston explains. In Don DeLillo's novel White Noise , the author imagines a new academic...
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Men too must work to take back the night
With rape going unpunished, we must reshape the law and attitudes to masculinity and violence, says Joanna Bourke. Sensuality is a source of delight. At least that was what I had assumed as a young...
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Boundaries are there to be leapt
A visit to a US college filled Frank Furedi with the hope that UK academics too can cross the disciplinary divides that hold them back. Although it has been more than two weeks since I returned from...
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Be an advocate, devilish or not advocate
A tutor's role is vital in encouraging students to debate and cogently argue a viewpoint. It requires preparation, generosity and setting clear ground rules to get them involved. Harriet Swain...