Film review: The Deep Blue Sea
Philip Dodd finds moments to cherish in Terence Davies' meditation on a tortured relationship
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TV review: Imagine: Alan Ayckbourn - Greetings from Scarborough
Alan Ayckbourn's plays are full of gentle humour and sharp insights into all human life, says Gary Day
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Gordon Higginson, 1929-2011
An academic with "unfailing warmth and courtesy", Gordon Higginson's nine-year tenure as vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton left a legacy that is still evident throughout the...
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Campus round-up
University of LeedsLook after yourselves, tooClose to 6.5 million people in the UK care for sick, disabled or frail friends and relatives, often at considerable cost to their own health and finances...
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Odds and quads
Adolphus was the mascot of fighter ace Maurice Leblanc-Smith (1896-1986), winner of the Distinguished Flying Cross, and accompanied him on many missions during the First World War.
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Tours promise a degree of truth about Argentina's past
Jon Marcus meets the scholarly guides tearing up the Tim Rice lyrics to uncover the real Buenos Aires
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Say it ain't so, Joe: US sector's pact with the drop-kick devil
Penn State scandal shows sport's stranglehold on American academy. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
? Academics and students were united in their outrage at the treatment of protesters doused with pepper spray at the University of California, Davis. The incident on 18 November led to the suspension...
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Leader: Young, gifted and slapped
Why is it that when young people express frustration at the bleak future they see ahead, we respond with another kick in the shins?
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From where I sit - India's star may be slow to ascend
India has long been the "sleeping giant" of Asia. Research in the university sector, stagnant for at least two decades, is now accelerating but it will be a long haul to restore the country as an...
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Appointments
University of Texas at AustinSally Dodson-RobinsonA scholar from the University of Texas at Austin plans to use a Faculty Early Career Development award from the National Science Foundation to answer...
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24 November 2011
Civic spark - What does a university add to a city? A lot more than you might think
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Black hole at heart of star's collapse
Dutch begin documenting top psychologist’s supermassive fraud