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Aspiring journalists must learn to ask probing questions of digital data as well as people, recommends Louise Byrne
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The 'gold standard' of Grayling is not struck from an Oxbridge mint
New College of the Humanities' pedagogic model has only a passing resemblance to the ancient universities' teaching, argues Julia Horn
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'He cites me, hard, forcing my footnotes apart...'
The Fifty Shades phenomenon has spawned academic debate, scholarly parodies and now an erotic trilogy starring a dark, brooding, sensual...lecturer. Matthew Reisz reveals all
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'Spend, spend, spend' - marketing head's advice
"Someone is waking up and smelling the coffee!" That was the reaction of our Head of Marketing, Graham Flair, to the forecast by Tim McIntyre-Bhatty, deputy vice-chancellor of Bournemouth University...
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Stay-at-home students need help to get moving
European universities need to improve their efforts to help doctoral students and academics spend time abroad, a report by the European University Association has found.
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Leader: Bring forth the body of evidence
It is outrageous that Whitehall remains reliant on an inaccurate system to measure overseas students' comings and goings
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Research intelligence - The Young ones look for British home
Scientists at the peak of their creativity are trying to find a voice in Britain. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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The week in higher education
• Plans to almost double tuition fees in Quebec could be scrapped after a student-led "maple spring" unseated the province's government, The Guardian reported on 5 September. The election of a...
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From Where I Sit - A real Nowhere man
Amid the fallout from the scandal over Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State University assistant football coach convicted of child abuse, how could one possibly associate the university with utopia...
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Odds and quads
The Apollo 15 mission of July and August 1971 was the first to allow a manned spacecraft to spend an extended period of time - close to three days - on the surface of the Moon.
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Appointments
University of WolverhamptonJohn DarlingThe new dean of research at the University of Wolverhampton has expressed his delight at being part of "ambitious plans for investing in research at the...
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India and London Met lose that loving feeling
Joanna Sugden reports from India on falling student applications and pre-emptive cutbacks
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13 September 2012
Politics, philosophy, economics - Troubled outsider’s outsized significance
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Curiosity knows no bounds
Policymakers focusing on science's utility have consigned the humanities to a supporting role, but scholars in each of the 'two cultures' understand that they share a love of discovery and capacity...