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The week in higher education
• Students arriving for their first day at A.C. Grayling's New College of the Humanities had to brave a mob of protesters, The Independent reported on 25 September. About 30 demonstrators gathered...
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From Where I Sit - Take and give
I have been back in Sydney this past month for the first time in seven years. One of the few non-family things I did was to visit the University of Sydney and call into its development office. It was...
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Odds and quads
These robots form part of the ALIZ-E project designed "to move human-robot interaction from the range of minutes to the range of days".
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Appointments
University of OxfordDouglas HiggsThe new director of the Medical Research Council Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM) at the University of Oxford has called it an honour to be chosen to...
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I'm an academic and I want to be proud of it
There was never a golden age in which academic values such as universalism and disinterestedness were not at risk, argues Bruce Macfarlane. But in an age of sponsorism and insecurity, all scholars...
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4 October 2012
World University Rankings 2012-13
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Frankenweenie
Animated films aren’t just for children, argues James Clarke. They’re lyrical metaphors for the richness of human existence
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Massive black mirror
Alan Ryan on the dystopian and utopian aspects of MOOCs
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Open to abuse
As the traditional academic publishing model comes under pressure from legitimate criticism, austerity and alternative forms, firms are springing up to exploit the uncertainty. Iain Stevenson...
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Alison Lee, 1952-2012
"A truly major scholar" who transformed our understanding of doctoral research has died.Alison Lee was born on 25 July 1952 and brought up in the small Tasmanian town of Burnie before going on to...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
University of East AngliaChained lettersA collection of letters that paints a vivid picture of 19th-century American slavery has gone on display in Norwich as part of Black History Month. The letters...
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Between Two Stools: Scatology and its Representation in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift, by Peter J. Smith
David Palumbo pooh-poohs any suggestion that ‘shiterature’ has no place in academic study