Money and old tropes
The academy is paying too much, not too little, heed to calls for adaptability to the market, says Hannah Forsyth
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Summer reads 2014
Scholars and senior sector figures on two books they plan to devour on holiday: a new must-read and a classic worthy of revisiting
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Economy needs '10,000 extra science graduates'
The UK needs to educate at least an extra 10,000 science graduates a year just to maintain its current industrial position, a major new report has concluded.
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Knowledge industry gets down to business
Universities will need to grasp the nettle of open learning if they are to survive. Tim Greenhalgh reports. Corporation campuses, the global academies, learning cultures, mutual profit were some of...
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Critics sceptical of EPSRC review outcome
Council’s structure must be more ‘transparent and inclusive’, report finds. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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Roger Brown, Jim Butcher, Tina Haux, Hillegonda Rietveld and Sharon Wheeler...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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HBOS and London Met: case studies in poor governance
Universities must ensure that governing bodies are fit to do their part to prevent crises, Michael Shattock says
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Biotechnology (Extracted from Industry Council, Luxembourg 6 June 2002)
Brussels 5 May 2002 The Council is expected to adopt Conclusions that address the development of life sciences and biotechnology in Europe. These focus on the overall approach set out in the...
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Alan Harrison, 1944-2012
A successful industrialist who went on to become an academic expert on operations management has died.Alan Harrison was born in Oxfordshire on 25 November 1944 and educated at Abingdon School before...
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The REF: how was it for you?
Research heads and other university staff on the burdens of submitting to the inaugural research excellence framework
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Hollywood and Hitler 1933-1939 by Thomas Doherty
Philip Kemp on how the American film industry reacted variously to the rise of fascism in Germany
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Fascism out of focus
Philip Kemp on how the US movie industry mostly ignored the rise of Fascism in Germany
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The richly creative will repay support, says CIHE head
A strategy to link research with media and digital industries is crucial, Elizabeth Gibney hears
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Awards and promotions
University of WestminsterRoland DannreutherRoland Dannreuther, dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Westminster, said he felt an equal mixture of “excitement and...