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As part of our #loveHE campaign, Times Higher Education has asked followers on Twitter to tell us why they love the academy.This week's tweet of the week is:New film directed by Richard Curtis,...
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Climategate: the cold comfort is that it is now a hot topic
UEA v-c believes there may be a positive outcome from the climate science scandal. Zoë Corbyn writes
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Work with the workforce
Employers and funders must involve staff in debates about potential changes in the sector, argues Michael MacNeil
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Inspiration and greater investment are the real mothers of invention
Universities have the potential to lead the way to a high-tech, economically robust future for the UK, according to James Dyson
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Daytime TV: A world all too real
Gary Day on the Siberian Jesus, Omar Khayyam and the ever-present divide between the rich and the poor
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Top institutions in plant and animal sciences
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 1999-June 2009
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Any old irony
"The time has come to root out this new challenge." This was the no-nonsense declaration from Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, as he inaugurated the newly formed Irony Sub-Committee...
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A precious symbiosis
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the interdependence of teaching and research
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Research intelligence: Proof is in the numbers
The co-founder of Evidence is continuing his work to improve research-data analysis. Zoë Corbyn reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: One step beyond the pale
The government now wants even postgraduate education to serve industry by inculcating business awareness and skills training
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From where I sit: Professor Dolittle's tyranny
I recently came across an astounding German book, Professor Untat (2007), by Uwe Kamenz, a professor at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and Martin Werle, a management consultant...
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Jack Pole, 1922-2010
A British expert on American history who was widely acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic has died.Jack Pole was born in London on 14 March 1922 and attended a progressive school in Hampstead.After...
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World's finest? V-cs, prove you're worth it 1
Times Higher Education's list of vice-chancellors' pay and benefits ("It was fun while it lasted", 1 April) makes for depressing reading, coming as it does in the same issue as Iain Pears'...
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World's finest? V-cs, prove you're worth it 2
Writing as both a taxpayer and a parent of a student, I'm infuriated by the way vice-chancellors have tailgated on to the inflated salaries paid in the private sector. This greed has done much to...