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Mr Les Onions, our Head of Fundraising, has welcomed the news from Fiona Kirk, the director of development at the London School of Economics, that the LSE will "rebuild an appetite for risk" after...
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Research intelligence - Eyes front in the 'top-down' centres
Josh Howgego and Paul Jump report on EPSRC efforts to train researchers with all-round acumen
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The academy award for best satellite campus goes to...
US universities aim to attract students and business by opening cross-country branches
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'Anti-genocide paparazzi' monitor Sudanese conflict
Harvard-based Satellite Sentinel Project offers cutting-edge support to humanitarian initiatives. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
• Is a letter signed by the vice-chancellors of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge one of the most powerful pieces of paper in existence? Many will be wondering after a U-turn by the government...
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Leader: Let's ask profitable questions
The Finch group's open-access task is tricky, but has it missed a trick by not investigating publishers' profit margins?
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From where I sit - Doctors beware: paper is patient
Since early 2011, Germany has been rocked by a series of scandals relating to ethical breaches in doctoral dissertations authored by high-profile figures. These range from huge tracts of work being...
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Odds and quads
Of around 20 surviving maces made for universities in the Middle Ages, three are owned by the University of St Andrews. Probably the finest and most valuable is the St Salvator's College Mace shown...
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Appointments
Anglia Ruskin UniversityFarah MendlesohnA newly appointed professor of literary history at Anglia Ruskin University said it was the "sheer diversity" of her new department that drew her to the job....
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Beyond those shores
In a competitive world, Japanese universities are realising the importance of internationalisation if they don’t want to get left behind. But culture change can be a slow and difficult process. Jack...
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7 June 2012
A ‘black ship’ moment - Japan again plays catch-up with the world
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Gravity always wins
Between the fatuous emotion and the response falls Christopher Bigsby
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Hidden in plain sight
Our failure to acknowledge that science is spurred by the same creative impulse that fuels the arts does a disservice to future scientists and to society as a whole, argues Geraint Wiggins
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Legal nemesis for the agents of hubris (1 of 2)
George Th. Mavrogordatos' "Styx and stones" (24 May) is a breath of fresh air, and in my view an accurate summary of the present state of affairs in many Greek universities.The situation in Greek...