Cambridge leader: going for growth will harm long-term contributions
Economic benefits are 'by-products' of teaching and research, says Sir Leszek. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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China in their hands
Howard Davies on the People’s Republic’s gamble on Western education
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Research intelligence - Tinkering produces converted Catalysts
Culture change is the focus of the Beacons' successors. Will it happen? asks Rachel Williams
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
• A former MI6 man has become the UK's oldest recorded graduate after gaining his third degree at the age of 90, The Independent reported. Bertie Gladwin took a master's in intelligence history at...
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From where I sit - Pursuit of happiness
It was inevitable that social scientists would devise what they call "indices of human happiness". These indices ask us to think about the well-being of nations not in terms of economic output, but...
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Odds and quads
These signed drawings of pigs, many of them dated between 1903 and 1910, are held in the archives of the Royal Northern College of Music.
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Appointments
Kingston UniversityAudley GenusThe new YTL professor of innovation and technology management at Kingston University Business School believes that there needs to be more understanding of the "...
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Windows on their worlds
From Thoreau’s pond and Hawthorne’s gables to Hardy’s study and the Brontës’ moors: Dale Salwak draws on his own literary pilgrimages to open students’ eyes to the sense of place underpinning great...
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Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands
Using words to reflect and create our experience of landscapes, and vice versa, is a powerful ruse. Leo Mellor admires the view
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Executive overdrive
Do vice-chancellors have too many plates in the air? Times Higher Education's annual survey of pay in the academy looks at the additional roles the sector's leaders take on. In an era of pay...
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Flying the Union flag for global graduates
Top graduates need to be able to compete in the global economy, so we are pleased that the government has recognised the importance of international study for all students, including those not...
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Zero-sum game
Congratulations to John Gill for highlighting one of the major implications of current higher education policy ("All for one, or none for all?", Leader, 3 May). The sector is looking and being...
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Corporate malfeasance
Tony Blair is a highly pragmatic politician who reacts to the world as he finds it ("Tony Blair: up the 'revolution'", 3 May). Lying behind the changes that he portrays as inevitable are some...
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Listen, learn a thing or two
The Commons Education Committee states that "a diminution of universities' role in teacher training could bring considerable demerits". It also questions the use of degree class as the determinant of...