ERC rejects 'impact agenda'
European funder puts faith in 'the cunning of reason'. Paul Jump reports from Brussels
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The British Council's Jo Beall tells John Morgan how it can smooth the path to 'transnational education'
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Arab MC-turned-scholar keeps it real (and brief)
The average master's thesis does not rework the 1990 album Fear of a Black Planet by legendary US hip hop group Public Enemy into a modern version about discrimination against Arabs.But for Yassin...
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Student lifestyle survey - More debt, more paid work, more pressure...less alcohol
The fifth biennial Sodexo-Times Higher Education University Lifestyle Survey is the last to quiz students under the lower tuition fees regime - and it reveals some telling views on the changing...
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Thoroughly entitled
Twenty years on, post-1992s have proved beyond doubt they are worthy of the university moniker, argues Michael Driscoll
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Social mobility, yes. Outreach efforts, yes. Quotas, absolutely not
Ruth Deech argues that any attempt by Offa to shape the make-up of the student body is wrong-headed and could fall foul of the law
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Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed
An immigrant artist's wanderlust propelled him to Britain, where his work was compared to Hogarth's, notes Emma Barker
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The Pick - Reconstructing lives
Reconstructing livesNational War Museum, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, 9 March-24 February 2013"We have now four miles of beds - and not eighteen inches apart," Florence Nightingale reported from the...
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Diary
BathThe Compassionate Eye: Birds and Beasts from the American Museum's Print CollectionAlthough he was a doctor, Dallas Pratt (1914-94) was deeply troubled by vivisection and committed to animal...
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That's all, folks!
Our Head of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Professor Gordon Lapping, has reacted angrily to insinuations that the BA course P3197 run by his department is a Mickey Mouse degree.Lapping...
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Leader: Exit the comfort zone
To truly satisfy students, the academy must push them to go for the burn intellectually, not mollycoddle them
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Research intelligence - Banking on intellectual futures
Paul Jump on the Birmingham Fellows programme drawing 50 rising stars into the university's orbit
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The week in higher education
• Sally Hunt, the University and College Union's general secretary, has vowed to fight "fewer battles" while focusing on "members' priorities" after she was re-elected by a landslide. Ms Hunt...
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From where I sit - Stockholm syndrome
I am an immigrant, again, and this time I don't speak the language. I am a well-paid immigrant, with a very good job and helpful colleagues. And I am taking language lessons, for free, courtesy of...