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Compton Verney, Warwickshire'Capability' Brown and the landscapes of Middle EnglandSet in its own "Capability" Brown landscape, Compton Verney makes the perfect venue for the first exhibition devoted...
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My box is bigger than yours!
Our Head of Research Impact, Gerald Thudd, has described the recent London School of Economics conference, Investigating Academic Impact, as "a major breakthrough".Thudd informed our reporter, Keith...
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Research Intelligence - Alternative outcomes
As the first professor of complementary medicine retires, he recalls a rough ride. Paul Jump reports
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The week in higher education
•The University of Cambridge got more than it bargained for in recruiting a new chancellor. The university put forward Lord Sainsbury, the former science minister and chairman of Sainsbury's, as its...
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Leader: A record fit for the 21st century
Scrapping degree classifications for US-style GPAs represents a long-overdue step to modernise accounts of student achievement
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From where I sit - Bowl out the 'Measurers'
In the last days of May, the Australian government came to an unwontedly sensible conclusion in regard to its recently completed Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) exercise. It dropped the...
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Appointments
University of East LondonDusty AmroliwalaDusty Amroliwala was, by his own admission, a "late starter" in the world of higher education, but the former Royal Air Force officer is now evangelical about...
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Beware the sharp clause
We all lose when scholars forfeit copyright, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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For the many, not the few
It is time to extend R.H. Tawney's 1922 vision of universal secondary education to universal access to tertiary study, argues Simon Szreter, and also to reject the coalition's fatally misguided...
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Title fights
With scholars exploring digital platforms to make their work more available, Matthew Reisz looks at possible replacements for the monograph
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Front lines
At a Unesco forum, Matthew Reisz hears about the hunger for libraries, corporate creep, and what should and should not be archived on the net
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Wisdom à la mode: launch the go-getters (1 of 2)
UK colleges and universities, in common with their counterparts in other Western countries, are doing a poor job of preparing graduates for work ("Not by skills alone", 16 June). The biggest weakness...
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Wisdom à la mode: launch the go-getters (2 of 2)
It was welcome indeed to see the argument for a rediscovery of wisdom in higher education. Given this, it is most unfortunate that the performance criteria for most academics seem to be the...
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Alternatives to privilege (1 of 3)
Given that Frank Furedi and his comrades over at Spiked and the Institute of Ideas are consistent in their moralisation of debate, it was with no little irony that I read his dismissal of those...
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Alternatives to privilege (2 of 3)
Frank Furedi welcomes the debate initiated by A.C. Grayling's plans for the New College of the Humanities, arguing that academics need greater autonomy.He suggests establishing a liberal-arts model...