Uncle Joe said it wasn't so
Vladimir Tismaneanu, in his appreciative review of Robert Gellately’s Stalin’s Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War, makes the startling claim that “Stalin was intent upon provoking a...
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Site of condescension
The new Times Higher Education website does indeed provide a much improved “front end” to access the publication. However, surely “Letters” should be immediately adjacent to the “Leader” section in...
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Grant winners - 14 March 2013
Leverhulme TrustPhilip Leverhulme PrizesClassicsAward winner: Michael SquireInstitution: King’s College LondonValue: £70,000The intersection between Graeco-Roman visual and literary culturesAward...
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Stick your oar in or we'll sink
By providing moral and intellectual leadership, university heads will help to protect the bottom line
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Fund ‘pick-and-mix’ Mooc generation, ex-wonk advises
State should fund the individual, not the provision, Sir Michael Barber argues
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Tax and rend for the Lib Dems?
Higher education could cause party fresh problems for 2015
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MIT doyenne: science still a man’s world
Nancy Hopkins identifies remaining obstacles to gender equality
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‘Responsive mode’ takes lion’s share of AHRC cash
Council unveils five-year strategy
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Afghanistan ‘must establish links’ with the West
Minister of education tells conference his country cannot progress without building foreign partnerships
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The Only Way is Exeter
Male-dominated Exeter - Male-dominated PoppletonAllegations that Poppleton University suffers from the same “stress-inducing” culture as recently revealed in a new internal report on life at the...
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British Library pledges support to university libraries
Chief executive Roly Keating tells Matthew Reisz he will help university libraries seek ‘the heart of the service’
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Campus round-up: 14 March 2013
Artistic authorityA university leader’s art collection was put on public display this week. The exhibition, titled Colour and Modernity, features prints, oil paintings and lithographs collected by...
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Olympians: give sporting life a sporting chance
THE podcast hears rallying cry for sector: play up and let students play the game
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Appointments - 14 March 2013
Harper Adams UniversityLeander McLennanA new lecturer in animal health at Harper Adams University said her transition from commercial clinical work to teaching was a “big change” but a challenge she...
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The advantages of being freelance
Sian Lawson extols the virtues of independence from the academy