Pinker leads international attack on UCL's 'unjust' treatment of scholar
Letter lends support to professor suspended over charges of insubordination. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Queen's Honours gives sector reasons to cheer
The head of the standards watchdog, Peter Williams, and the retired vice-chancellor of London South Bank University, Deian Hopkin, have been honoured by the Queen.Professor Hopkin, who is a member of...
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Deficit leads to plan to shut 16 courses
One London institution eyes job cuts, while others look at losses and pay. Rebecca Attwood writes
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Publisher 'threat' to open access
Elsevier approaches v-cs about taking repositories out of universities' hands. Zoe Corbyn reports
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News in brief
Stem subjectsProject to raise numbers kicks offA £20 million programme to raise the number of students graduating in science, technology, engineering and maths is to begin this summer. Details of the...
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Daytime TV: The personal touch
Gary Day is impressed by Barbara's sales technique but depressed by a less-than-funny satire
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No business like pork business
In a shock move, our vice-chancellor has transferred himself and all 250 members of our administrative staff to new offices within the Poppleton Pork Products factory.He told our reporter, Keith...
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Whose data is it anyway?
A PhD student's run-in with a senior researcher sets Tim Birkhead thinking
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: A breath of fresh air on campus
Institutions and individuals across academia are embracing the green agenda. But it's still a long way to go to sustainability
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From where I sit - An agenda of despair
As you enter Lille III (the Universite Charles de Gaulle's arts faculty), you are greeted with the words "Le Capitalisme etouffe nos facs! Tuons-le!" ("Capitalism is suffocating our universities! Let...
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Sir Clive Granger, 1934-2009
Sir Clive Granger, the Nobel prizewinning economist, has died.Born in Swansea on 4 September 1934, he moved with his family to Lincoln for his father's job with the Chivers jam company and spent the...
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Manchester Met/Oxford Brookes - It's a start
Two universities are offering schemes to help graduates increase their employability. Manchester Metropolitan University is to give graduates three weeks of training before helping them to find work...
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Blend administration roles
The debate about whether administrators should ever be allowed the title "professor" seems to me a part of the wider debate about the academic/administrator divide ("Call to reserve professor title...
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Business lead in e-learning
In your article "Questions of cost and usefulness dog e-learning" (4 June), it was reported that academics see e-learning as expensive and time-consuming when it comes to teaching students. Clearly,...