The Pick - Five-ring circus of the arts
Credit: Bregezer Festspiele/Karl ForsterCiao bella: Judith Weir's Miss Fortune updates a Sicilian folk taleThe Olympic year will bring with it the London 2012 Festival, modestly billed as "the...
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Your 2012 resolution: don't make one
Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has reminded all academic staff that the making of New Year's resolutions is a violation of official university policy.He told our reporter...
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Leader: Perils of the export business
Although UK institutions' foreign-accreditation initiatives have been largely problem-free, even a few disasters are too many
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Drop the pilot: drone courses pursued in search of security
US students flock to unmanned-aircraft degrees as civilian market beckons. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
• An Indian postgraduate at Lancaster University was shot dead on 26 December as he made his way to the opening of the sales in Manchester. A 20-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Anuj...
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From where I sit - Perception is everything
The Knight review of Australia's student-visa programme has ushered in changes Down Under that are an inconvenience for the UK, but they are not the real cause of our current malaise - or the biggest...
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Appointments
UCFB College of Football BusinessRichard FlashA former professional footballer has taken up the post of lecturer in football business and marketing at the UCFB College of Football Business.Richard...
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Captured by the castle
Downton Abbey's true star, argues A.W. Purdue, is the house itself: the ultimate British status symbol
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Boom and bust
The University of Wales was brought down by validation, its money-making machine. David Matthews asks how that happened, how others might be stopped from putting cash before quality and whether the...
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Rip EPSRC equation up and start again
An open letter to David WillettsWe the undersigned are writing to you in your capacity as the minister of state for universities and science to again ask you to initiate an inquiry into the role and...
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Dividing chaos by two
"One quango to rule them all?" (22/29 December) set out many of the difficulties with the government's proposal to make the Higher Education Funding Council for England a "super-regulator". The...
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Simply pick the best
Ken Smith's recent letter regarding the percentage of students from state and independent schools going to Oxbridge is a direct plea for a quota system ("Super-selection only perpetuates privilege",...
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Vital variations
I was disappointed to read dismissive comments about the Chopin Online Variorum Edition in the feature "Surfdom" (8 December). Both those interested in musical editing and practical musicians...
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Praise for the engine room
Times Higher Education's People pages suggest a world of fast-moving go-getters - with the exception, over on the right, of a lone deceased colleague whose dedication to their discipline and students...
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Film review: The Iron Lady
A film about Margaret Thatcher is unrealistic about her and events in her premiership, says Duncan Wu