Radical call leads to death threats
Conservatives direct bile at academic who urged US jobless to protest. Matthew Reisz reports
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Southampton reforms aim to add 'breadth to depth'
Revamped curriculum to offer students a 'value proposition' post fees hike. Hannah Fearn reports
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'Melbourne model' inflicts paralysis of choice
An Australian university has made changes to its innovative "new generation" undergraduate curriculum after satisfaction ratings from the first cohort of graduates revealed mixed results.The so-...
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News in Brief
Knowledge transferThat's the enterprising spiritAcademics will be encouraged to behave more like entrepreneurs with the help of a Dragons' Den star. A series of "boot camp" seminars will advise...
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Sex meets gore in hardcore study
Conference gets to grips with extreme adaptations and slash fiction. Matthew Reisz takes a peek
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Diary
StockholmNasa - A Human AdventureThe Tekniska Museet (Sweden's National Museum of Science and Technology), founded in 1936, offers "an exciting journey from the infancy of industry to grand visions...
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The Pick - After Sebald: Place and Re-Enchantment
Credit: Patience (After Sebald)/Grant GeeAfter Sebald: Place and Re-EnchantmentAldeburgh, SuffolkThey sound like an unlikely coupling.W.G. Sebald (1944-2001), for many years professor of European...
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Our vice-chancellor's on the job - official
"Not our vice-chancellor." That was the forthright response of Ted Odgers to the assertion by Tim Wilson, the outgoing vice-chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire, that "a vice-chancellor's...
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What happens in Vegas
...is cheer and courtesy, says Sally Feldman, and we could do with a little here
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Leader: This really calls for an inside job
In good times and bad, scholars remain the best people to keep universities, and those within them, on their missions
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Research intelligence - Slow train coming
The sciences may be embracing open access, but the humanities remain cool to the idea. Paul Jump investigates
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The Wal-Mart ethos attracts few buyers among US lecturers
Staff chafe but administrators press on with efforts to instil consumer focus. Jon Marcus writes
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The Week in Higher Education
He may be known as "Two Brains", but universities minister David Willetts has always relied on four eyes - until now. Mr Willetts has shed his spectacles thanks to laser eye surgery and on 20 January...
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From where I sit - Where passion trumps technology
With the new academic year in Australia set to start in a few weeks, I am savouring a time of quiet contemplation before the madness begins. Naturally, I think about fresh strategies for teaching...