Odds and quads
The Royal College of Science was one of three institutions that merged in 1907 to form Imperial College London. In 1955, it set up its own Motor Club to maintain a fire engine known as Jezebel as a ...
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Doha and don’ts: legal eagle swoops on Qatar
Georgetown’s Doha campus violates 1815 charter, claims a 21-page brief. Jon Marcus reports
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Narrow Horizons 2020 from Israeli perspective
University leaders flag possible fallout of EU’s ‘disputed territory’ curbs. David Matthews reports
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Build your own path to quality, Iraq academy told
Report on Erbil conference highlights challenges facing Iraqi universities
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Race-conscious admissions policy may have run its race
Universities are exploring alternatives to race-conscious admissions policy. Chris Parr reports
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Times Higher Education Alma Mater Index
List of CEO alumni favours North American and European rivals
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Times Higher Education Awards 2013
Higher education institutions are crucibles of innovation - and not just in those areas of research that grab the headlines. Recognising the creativity and quality to be found throughout universities...
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Grant winners
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Services and Delivery Research programmeAward winner: Sarah ByfordInstitution: King’s College LondonValue: £675,578The cost and cost-effectiveness of...
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THE Scholarly Web - #toofrank?
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Awards and promotions
Royal College of ArtJordan Baseman“If you had told me when I was 22 and graduating from art school that I would spend almost my entire adult life working in art schools I wouldn’t have believed you...
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Obituary - George Watson
A maverick English don who often contributed to Times Higher Education has died.George Watson was born into a Queensland farming family in Australia on 13 October 19 and educated at Brisbane Boys’...
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Michel Anteby and Caitlin Anderson on Harvard Business School’s willingness to go off script
Harvard Business School’s teaching model offers consistency but also allows unscripted ‘discovery’, explain Michel Anteby and Caitlin Anderson
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto - L’esprit de l’escalier
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on two undergraduates’ stairways to heaven
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Letters
Rising from ashes of market conflagrationIn her brave condemnation of what has happened to higher education in recent years (“Free market principles have changed (and ruined) the academyâ€, Opinion,...
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Scenic routes
The majority of academics tend to focus on a particular area of research but, as Nancy Rothwell explains, switching to a new sphere of study can be a fruitful - and liberating - experience