Digital exhibit puts public in picture
A graphic design expert has used digital technology to "democratise" art in a year-long project at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. Marty St James, a video artist and senior...
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Welsh enterprise goes global
Wales is on track to export entrepreneurial education across the globe by launching a unique online enterprise college. The £6.5 million venture is being set up by Glamorgan University in association...
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Bringing in art students through the front door
Sir Christopher Frayling says art and design practitioners are still victims of a Victorian hierarchy. At my very first meeting of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals (as it was then...
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Universities must make more of the devolved picture
Whatever else the first Blair administration is remembered for, its devolution of power to new assemblies and parliaments in Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh is guaranteed a place in the history books...
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If DU is deadly, say so
An independent and open inquiry into the health effects of depleted uranium munitions is an appropriate project for the Royal Society. And it is possible that the group, being led by Brian Spratt,...
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Game's up for UCEA
Employers are in disarray and staff would get a better deal if they were unified, argues David Triesman. For an energetic advocate of national bargaining in higher education, it is painful to...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Mark Griffiths argued that letter writing can improve academics' career prospects. Mark Bennett Reader in developmental psychology University of Dundee. It seems hardly...
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Sickness subject to status
It isn't wealth that's good for our health but income equality and friendship, writes Richard Wilkinson. Societies with a wider income gap between rich and poor tend to have lower standards of health...
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Why we... believe the internet can enhance psychology
In 1948 researchers from Pennsylvania State College found that the majority of people they surveyed put psychology at the bottom of a list of careers they would like their children to go into. Forty...
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Bigwigs' brutal pasts spark campus fury
Nigeria is appointing many of its former heads of state - some of them linked to brutal military regimes - as pro chancellors of its 34 universities. Tunde Adeniran, the minister of education, said...
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TV company accused of manipulating experiment
Social scientists at Aberdeen University have accused the company behind the BBC's social experiment Castaway 2000 of creating heroes and villains to conceal their own manipulative, behind-the-scenes...
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UK image tainted by the stains in Spain
Britain's international academic reputation suffered a further blow this week when the Quality Assurance Agency expressed doubts about universities' overseas activities. In an audit of Britain's...
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Studying the passed
Excrement is a growing area in archaeology. Miles Russell explains the power of poo. Ever stopped to think about poo? I do not mean in a deviant way (though obviously that is entirely your...
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Cutting edge: Pamela Briggs
What is the nature of the perfect relationship and can it be recreated in virtual forms? Is the internet a blessing or a curse? Is face-to-face interaction suffering as a result? Two recent US...
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Drawing some young blood
The man who once said that Spanish science was in a 'critical state' will now lead its biggest research body. Rebecca Warden reports. Rolf Tarrach's reaction to being appointed head of Spain's...