Three wishes: NUS urges trio of loans to help poor postgraduates
End ‘immoral’ barriers to access on grounds of wealth, union urges. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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Small, medium or large
Is there an optimum size for research labs? Are larger labs more prone to research misconduct and harder to manage? Paul Jump investigates
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Firm footing
Technicians, the academy’s ‘Cinderellas’, play vital roles and deserve proper recognition and support, argue Kelly Vere and Roger Murphy
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McKinsey: rankings ought to show who is on the job
Company’s education leader calls for greater focus on graduate employability. David Matthews reports
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Research intelligence - A shift from tactics to strategy
It’s time for physics to make a big bang, the woman from the ministry tells Elizabeth Gibney
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
• Lord Patten of Barnes, embattled chairman of the BBC Trust and chancellor of the University of Oxford, is under mounting pressure to quit the corporation, The Sun reported on 14 November. The...
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A voyage round my father
To mark the 10th anniversary of the film-maker Karel Reisz’s death, his son, Times Higher Education staff writer Matthew Reisz, examines academics’ appraisals of his father’s work, and reflects on...
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Leader: Goldilocks had the right idea
Rather than assuming bigger is better, we must trial research laboratory effectiveness before concluding which size is just right
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From Where I Sit - Silence on Europe is deafening
Few stories have so dominated the news in recent years as Europe's sovereign debt crisis. We have been faced with a torrent of bad news and warnings ranging from worries about contagion within the...
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Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes
Virginia Trimble considers supermassive creative destruction at the Universe’s galactic centres
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Animal Suffering: Philosophy and Culture
Do we really need a book like this? Isn’t it perfectly obvious that animals suffer, and that their suffering matters? Well, hardly. In fact, it may instead seem obvious that most animals - insects,...
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The Most Remarkable Woman in England: Poison, Celebrity and the Trials of Beatrice Pace
In July 1928, Beatrice Pace was acquitted of the charge of murdering her husband, Harry. The trial of the working-class woman had attracted considerable press coverage, making her a “celebrity”....
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I Did It To Save My Life: Love and Survival in Sierra Leone
Joanna Lewis on how cultures and circumstances skew our passions more than we may realise
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Welfare States and Immigrant Rights: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion
Welfare States and Immigrant Rights offers an original analysis of the impact of welfare states on immigrants’ social rights, economic situations and levels of inclusion. In what is the first...