THE Awards 2011: shortlist announced
The unflagging quality and innovation evident in universities across the UK shows the sector's resolute commitment to excellence in the face of a difficult and unpredictable climate. Our shortlist...
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Film review: The Hedgehog
An intelligent adaptation skilfully if smugly paints Japan as antidote to French bourgeois life, says Philip Dodd
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TV review: The Field of Blood
Gary Day sees good versus evil in a hard-headed tale of murder set in a Glasgow newsroom
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John Turner, 1947-2011
John Turner is remembered as a scholar who focused on the big questions and the things that mattered and who always completed tasks to the best of his ability.Born in London in 1947, Professor Turner...
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THE Scholarly Web
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Campus round-up
University of OxfordFossil-fuelled discoveryResearchers working in Australia have found the oldest-known fossils on Earth. A team of researchers from the University of Western Australia and the...
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Odds and quads
These hair samples may look as if they come from the collection of a serial killer, but they were prepared by one of the major figures in the development of the University of Dundee's renowned...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Invasion of privacy
Even recalcitrant scholars can鈥檛 escape the mobile鈥檚 reach, says Sally Feldman
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1 September 2011
Second life - What happens when a single letter changes an author鈥檚 sex?
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Memory failure detected
A coalition of the willing is battling legal, logistical and technical obstacles to archive the riches of the mercurial World Wide Web for the benefit of future scholars. Zo毛 Corbyn reports
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Time to put lifelong learning back at the heart of 鈥榗ivic universities鈥
Universities will reap commercial and academic benefits by tapping into the skills of older people on lifelong learning courses, an academic has argued.
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Web marketing grows, but universities urged not to abandon personal approach
A major survey of online marketing to prospective international students has found that a 鈥渙ne size fits all鈥 approach is unlikely to succeed, and that, for universities, a web presence is not a...
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Inside Higher Ed: Sociologists in Sin City
By Serena Golden, for Inside Higher Ed
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V-c鈥檚 鈥榙ismissive鈥 attitude to support staff provokes union ire
The vice-chancellor of the University of Northampton has been accused of 鈥渄ismissing鈥 the work of administrative and support staff after redundancy plans were announced.