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Speculate to accumulate: that’s the model for developing success

Debate on the global university hears that trial and error leads to patents. Matthew Reisz writes

Erotic accolade for penetrating insights

Psychology lecturer’s work on sex advice honoured at the Erotic Awards. Chris Parr reports

Odds and quads

This wall forms part of the third and last Merzbau (or sculptural installation), constructed by the celebrated collagist Kurt Schwitters in his Lake District barn. It is now on permanent display in...

Online window on India’s recent past

Five million pages available, from official reports to cinematic ephemera. Matthew Reisz writes

News in brief

Student loansRules fixed for private providersThe government has published final guidance on the new process for allowing privately funded higher education providers access to publicly funded Student...

Letters

Learn from Met record or get stuck on repeatHow well acquainted is Michael Shattock with London Metropolitan University? (“‘The best board I ever sat on’”, 30 May.) In drawing parallels between HBOS...

THE Executive Focus and Appointments

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The week in higher education

He may be hell-bent on destroying their “Marxist” education departments, but universities are still dutifully helping education secretary Michael Gove with his A-level reform plans. After the Russell...

Where do you think you’re going, eminent Cambridge scientist from overseas?

Cambridge lab staff had to keep weekly record of whereabouts, master complains. John Elmes writes

Annus horribilis

Not many vice-chancellors own up to their universities being “too aggressive” on job cuts, or lament the “tragedy” of closing languages courses when their institution is doing just that.But given the...

Leader - Local pathways through disputed territory

When it comes to resolving student grievances in the high fees era, it is best if universities can nip them in the bud

Wealthy foundations: UK’s engineering heavyweights

The University of Sheffield has nudged the University of Cambridge into third place in a list of the UK institutions earning the most research income from engineering, ����Vlog Statistics...

Gross domestic pinprick for the UK’s academy

Public funding for UK higher education as a proportion of national income, after coalition reforms, is now greater than just four other European nations, a report claims.The study by the European...