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Campus round-up
Royal Holloway, University of LondonGold-letter day for alma materA postbox on a university campus has been painted gold to honour a graduate's success at the London Paralympics. Sophie Christiansen...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Success at any cost? There may be a high price to pay
Allegations of cheating at Harvard might point to a deeper malaise, finds Jon Marcus
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The week in higher education
? Tributes from across the sector have been paid to Mike Baker, the former BBC education correspondent, who died this week. David Willetts, the universities and science minister, described him in a...
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Leader: Things can only get worse
Budget forecasts suggest that higher education is still at risk from a government needing to find further savings
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From Where I Sit - Personal married to the political
Political scientists are often sniffy about the role of the individual in politics and policymaking. But time and again, in studying what happens behind the scenes in European higher education...
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Off Piste - Is it really so strange?
A young Nick Hillman chose Manchester less for the university’s eminent historians than for the city’s glorious music scene - and despite the latter’s loathing for his Conservative heroine
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Odds and quads
These are among the 400 Japanese stencils (katagami) acquired by the Silver Studio, one of the UK's most influential design houses, in the late 19th century.
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Appointments
Monash/University of WarwickAndrew CoatsThe new academic alliance between Monash University and the University of Warwick has appointed Andrew Coats to the inaugural positions of academic vice-...
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Research intelligence - Panning for gold dust in midstream
Measure impact while research is under way, urge Jisc-funded studies. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Savages
A violent, drug-addled reworking of Star Wars is an authentic work by a controversial auteur but lacks the bite of his earlier films, argues Duncan Wu
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Red alert
Is the new student loans system an affordable, progressive system of graduate contributions - or a dodgy move to get debt off the books that could bring grave fiscal consequences? John Morgan sifts...
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Synonym and antonym
Freedom and Liberty are not the same, finds Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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27 September 2012
Hole in the figures - Why student loan regime may not add up