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The week in higher education
• Sharp-eyed readers who wondered why, in our 17 May issue, we reported that only one of two academics at Queen Mary, University of London who wrote a critical letter to The Lancet had apparently...
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From Where I Sit - Female role model
"We enjoy your classes," my seminar students said to me, "because you're not a real teacher." When I asked what they meant, they told me about the "real" classes of certain, named male teachers. "...
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Odds and quads
These images are taken from the Bowen Collection, now held by the University of Bath, which was assembled as part of the research for a book on the origins and history of judo in the UK.
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Appointments
Liverpool Hope UniversityFrank Cottrell BoyceThe newly appointed professor of reading and communication at Liverpool Hope University joked that his first thought when he was offered the job was: "...
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Means, ends and endings
Alan Ryan on commencement season in the US: this time, it’s political
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Zero-sum game
The government’s ruthless, distorted idea of ‘competition’ will impoverish the whole academy and everyone in it. Thomas Docherty muses on a prescient 40-year-old speech warning of the trap at the end...
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Prometheus
Three decades after confronting our anxieties about reproduction in Alien, Sir Ridley Scott returns to the universe of his classic sci-fi horror film. Davina Quinlivan considers the franchise and...
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Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature
To fully appreciate great works of art one must be tuned into history, discovers Mark Berry
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THE 100 Under 50 university rankings: results
New league table aims to identify the rising stars of the global academy. John Morgan reports
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Special topics in calamity physics
The man who kept Berkeley from sinking as California slashed its budget will step down this year. He tells Zoë Corbyn how disaster was averted even though huge challenges remain
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What doctors need is a dose of fairness (1 of 2)
Chris Hackley is wrong when he suggests that we need a more humane and compassionate style of doctoral examination ("The kindness of strangers", 24 May). In fact, what we need is more respect for...
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What doctors need is a dose of fairness (2 of 2)
While raising a number of valid concerns about the external assessment of PhDs in the UK, Chris Hackley seems to take consumer sovereignty beyond its limits (if it is indeed appropriate to education...
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Irreplaceable losses
For those of us who have long been active in developing educational and research provision beyond these shores, it is heartening to learn that David Willetts, the universities and science minister,...
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Wider invite
I welcome Times Higher Education's argument that we don't just need more British students to study abroad: we need to encourage a wider range of universities to support student mobility as part of...