Shelf protection
It is indeed sad that the successful bid by the London School of Economics to take over the Women's Library does not include the purpose-designed building in Old Castle Street, Whitechapel, currently...
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Top jobs for the boys (1 fo 3)
As someone embarking on my first managerial role (head of department), I turned to the feature "Breeding leaders" ( September) for ideas and inspiration. I experienced the opposite.Apart from...
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Top jobs for the boys (2 of 3)
The interests and skills associated with being a vice-chancellor described in "Breeding leaders" seem reasonable enough: research and publications, advising senior staff, controlling costs, ventures...
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Top jobs for the boys (3 of 3)
Six vice-chancellors from the ranks of middle and senior management may seem an impressive record for the University of Southampton a mere 60 years on from its royal charter, but sub specie...
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Step on you erratum
I am the outgoing head of student administration at the University of Salford (soon to be the head of registry at the Royal Northern College of Music) and a new subscriber to your publication. I was...
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Bunch of rankers
Last week, THE published its long-awaited World University Rankings - and also reported rankings of a different sort (The week in higher education, 4 October). According to a psychology journal paper...
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The Bologna chorus: harmony from two tones of same note
Higher education has room for both high ideals and pragmatism, Matthew Reisz hears in Bologna
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
• Being human resources director at much-ridiculed security firm G4S must be difficult, leaving one yearning to work somewhere with a spotless reputation - the University of Oxford, perhaps. Julian...
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Leader: REF must ensure fair play for all
The focus on world-leading work could turn a generation of unsubmitted researchers into second-class citizens
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From where I sit - Blessed with intellectual roots
Nine years ago, when I started teaching at the European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA) in Berlin - ECLA of Bard since its merger with Bard College last year - I thought I had landed on the moon (I...
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Odds and quads
These are among the approximately 200 chairs on display at the University of Helsinki until the end of the year as part of an exhibition titled Seats of Learning.
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Appointments
School of Advanced Study, LondonColin BlakemoreWorld-renowned neuroscientist Colin Blakemore has been appointed director of the Institute of Philosophy's Centre for the Study of the Senses at the...
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The importance of being useless
The tide of instrumentalism threatens to engulf the UK’s higher education sector, but could a new wave of liberal arts programmes signal a return to the ancient ideal of learning for its own sake?...
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Declaration of independence
The Ivy League’s autonomy has allowed its members to conquer the world. The UK must loosen the reins on its universities and establish an equivalent, Terence Kealey argues