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Christopher Bigsby can’t keep up with the proliferation of new universities
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Sandwich short of a picnic
Funding system must ensure it does not hamper institutions’ ability to offer work placements crucial to graduate employment
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From Where I Sit - More to Moocs than moolah
I spent some of the past semester trying to be an active learner on a Coursera massive open online course (Mooc) on modern poetry from the University of Pennsylvania. It was an impressive, well-...
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Major breakthrough in science of atoms - latest
One of our leading theoretical physicists, Dr T.P. Burlap, has come up with a radical idea for utilising the new “miracle material” graphene.In a paper published in the latest edition of The British...
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Another world's words
Is the use of corporate jargon a surprise, asks Keir Thorpe, when university managers are made to feel so insecure?
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Slow ethics will tackle moral winter
We need to calm our frenetic lives and let virtues such as integrity, patience and respectfulness prevail, reflects Ann Gallagher
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Trust exercises benevolence as actors enter new life stage
Matthew Reisz reports on the bursaries helping ex-thespians to pursue higher education goals
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10 January 2013
Multilayered intellect - What extra insight does a scholar gain from a varied career path?
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Grant winners
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHHealth Technology Assessment ProgrammeAward winner: Joseph DiasInstitution: University Hospitals of Leicester NHS TrustValue: £2,284,684Scaphoid waist internal...
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Arthur Collis, 1916-2012
A distinguished academic authority on social work has died.Arthur Collis was born in Leyton, East London, on 13 November 1916, and won a scholarship to the local county high school. He began his...
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Utopian possibilities and obstacles (1 of 2)
Notwithstanding my huge respect for Ronald Barnett, I would like to take issue with his characterisation of what he calls "the public-good theorists" ("Head in the clouds, feet on the ground", 3...
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Utopian possibilities and obstacles (2 of 2)
Three cheers for Ronald Barnett's conception of the utopian university! It won't get very far, though, in today's down-to-earth, cynical, quantified, realistic, critically minded, academic arena -...
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To serve the public (1 or 2)
Jonathan Shepherd makes a number of strong points in his article calling for joined-up thinking in research for public services ("Appliance of social science", 3 January), but he also commits a...
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To serve the public (2 of 2)
Universities play a key role in providing many professional qualifications but Jonathan Shepherd rightly highlights the need for graduate "practitioner-scientists" doing real-world research in our...
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Widen the net, Oxbridge (1 of 2)
Miles Hewstone is right to agonise about whether Oxbridge selection mechanisms are error-free ("Selection mechanism", 3 January), but what about the students who never apply in the first place? If...