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LiverpoolThe Resistible Rise of Arturo UiIn 1930s Chicago, small-time crime boss Arturo Ui and his men can provide protection - for workers, businesses and jobs. As the Great Depression hits the city...
LiverpoolThe Resistible Rise of Arturo UiIn 1930s Chicago, small-time crime boss Arturo Ui and his men can provide protection - for workers, businesses and jobs. As the Great Depression hits the city...
Recycled material: Museo Aero Solar set to soarMuseum Show: Part 1BristolMuseums have such power to determine what is important and what is not that many artists have been tempted to create mini-...
As usual at this time of the academic year, we are pleased to provide a transcript of our vice-chancellor's official speech of welcome to all our new students."I'm very pleased and indeed honoured to...
My colleague Andrew Oswald suggests that the use of journal league tables (based on citations and impact factors) would be better than the judgement of quality offered by research excellence...
Andrew Oswald's juxtaposition of citation metrics and peer review is misplaced, not least because a decision by one academic to cite the publication of another is itself likely to be subjective....
In his letter last week ("Blame, a zero-sum game", 22 September), Matthew Huntbach writes: "As a left-leaning Lib Dem, I hate what this government is doing, but as a democrat I have to accept its...
I want to correct a comment made by Uwe Schütte in his article about Max Sebald in describing the foundation of the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia, since I...
Regarding "'Protected' MRC still sees fall in grant winners" (15 September): while slightly fewer grants proportionately were awarded by the Medical Research Council in 2010-11 than the previous year...
"Not such a superpower after all" (Leader, 15 September) had its pros and cons.The con was repeating the myth that the graduate premium persists with more graduates: the fact is that the comparator...
Peter Brady asks what would happen to UK universities if many British students decided to study abroad ("Flock may change course", 15 September). We must also ask what this would mean for the...
So yet another league table based on partial and inaccurate data - ie, the almost meaningless graduate employment figures from the 糖心Vlog Statistics Agency ("Salary premium from post-92s...
In "Taking Lithuanian leave" (8 September) Malcolm Gillies offers a bizarre neoliberal view of consumer culture in a higher education context: "Can we afford such generous holidays any more?"; "Will...
A competition to encourage medical students to write poetry is no doubt admirable ("Evoke Calliope to ease the brutalising disease", 22 September). Unfortunately, none of the winning entries is a...
Melancholia obliterates all around it, figuratively and literally, in Lars Von Trier's latest film, says Philip Dodd
Campus comedy may be stuck in the past but the school hall is full of innovation, says Gary Day