The Shape of Inner Space
With the assistance of science writer Steve Nadis, renowned mathematician Shin-Tung Yau, one of the main players in some of the most important recent advances in complex geometry, aims to bring a...
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Losing perspective
Confident protocols of cultural judgement have gone. Today, amid the competing voices of 'relativism', 'essentialism' and the hectic production of culture and opinion, 'our own response' to the arts...
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Diary
OxfordLucien Pissarro in England: The Eragny Press, 1895-1914Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944), son of the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, was himself a painter, engraver and printmaker. He also...
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The Pick - Arias on the edge
London has a new mini opera house at the King's Head Theatre in Islington, where OperaUpClose's Bangkok-set "ladyboy" production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly and a youthful take on Rossini's...
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Stop asking silly questions
Janet Fluellen, our Director of Curriculum Development, has announced that Poppleton will "definitely not" be following the example of the University of Winchester and introducing a new degree in...
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Lack of laughter is no joke
Felipe FernΓ‘ndez-Armesto on the real punchline of his diplomatic incident
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Research intelligence - Adapted for greatest impact
By mixing independence and collaboration, a new centre expects to find novel ways of coping with climate change. Neha Popat reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Week in Higher Education
The festive period was not kind to the man with responsibility for England's universities. Having been stung by undercover reporters, Vince Cable, the business secretary, may have regretted his pre-...
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Leader: Standing on shaky ground
This year looks to be one in which divisions in the sector widen, leaving no one representing the needs of the academy as a whole
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From where I sit - Keen learners, but tough crowds
All teachers have faced hard crowds; bored, tired, restless students who would clearly prefer to be just about anywhere else than in your classroom.One of my toughest sells was a late Friday...
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Philip M. Taylor, 1954-2010
A professor who considered himself "a goalkeeper pretending to be an academic", after turning to academe following a sporting injury, has died.Philip M. Taylor, of the University of Leeds, was the...
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Hard times and narration arouse passion in US humanities scholars
The βacademy in crisisβ emerged as a key theme on the first day of the Modern Language Association of America conference, as thousands of humanities scholars gathered in California for the annual...
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Journal rankings help define, not distort
Dennis Tourish argues that journal rankings are haunting business schools and being used to micromanage researchers ("Publish or be damned", 16 December). He suggests that they distort scholarship by...
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Rejection of imputation
While we deplore the University of Bristol's high-handed decision to abolish the study of German literature pre-1750, we wish to dissociate ourselves from Cyril Edwards' unfounded imputation of...