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Globalisation debate ponders strategies for developing countries

Diverse university models and academic freedom are key to resilience, participants hear

NYU scholar is taking out the trash

Anthropologist gets her hands dirty with Big Apple’s sanitation workers

Shelter from the storm: happy birthday, Cara

House of Lords event hears how council and the scholars it has saved have enriched the UK

Blinkered belief systems

They wanted to believe, and so they believed. That seems to be the consensus among critics of the policy called austerity, including the anti-austerian, Nobel prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz...

Are there extremist ‘swamps’ on campus that need draining?

Woolwich murder reignites debate over university radicalisation

Dear Michael Gove: a letter from a ‘bad academic’

Teacher-turned-scholar Jon Berry sends a message to the education minister on the theory behind best practice

Welcome breaches of discipline

Let’s penetrate the academic boundaries, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

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Christopher Phelps argues for the benefits of immigration, but in the wider labour market, as Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has observed, migration of unskilled labour leads to lower...

Workload overload

When I read “Eight days a week” (6 June) I was particularly struck by the account of Philip Moriarty, professor of physics at the University of Nottingham, who said that in order to make up for the...

Learn from Met record or get stuck on repeat

How well acquainted is Michael Shattock with London Metropolitan University? (“‘The best board I ever sat on’”, 30 May.) In drawing parallels between HBOS and the university, Shattock quotes Sir Alan...

Outdated advice

It is no secret that many business schools, including my own, use the Association of Business Schools’ Academic Journal Quality Guide to determine scholarly performance. Indeed, the publication...

Cast neural net wider

Regarding “Neuron firing and hiring” (Opinion, 30 May). There is much to be learned from neuroscience, although the danger lies in extracting bits of information and extrapolating from them as if...

Great maths, not masters

I am writing in response to Brian Sewell’s “Every picture tells a history” (23 May). I am well qualified to do so as I am a 58-year-old professor of electronic engineering who has just completed a...

Piled Higher and Deeper by Jorge Cham - 13 June 2013

R.C. Richardson, Nigel Rodenhurst, David Revill, Paul Greatrix and John R. Grodzinski...

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