Life-risking 'spy' plan pulled
Academic protests have forced the Foreign Office to delay an anti-terror project. Phil Baty reports Two research councils put plans to enlist academics in the War on Terror on hold this week after...
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Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology and the Wrath of God
Fifty years ago, the seismologist Charles Richter - he of the famous scale - lamented that "ancient accounts of earthquakes do not help us much; they are incomplete, and accuracy is usually...
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Greek fire and purple majesty
Byzantium
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Anti-terror funds awarded
Winners of nine grants from a controversial Foreign Office-funded programme to help combat terrorism have been announced. Last year, The Times Higher revealed that the Economic and Social Research...
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Demographic decline threatens Europe
European universities will need to shrink by 2020 or recruit large numbers of overseas students to adjust to demographic changes, researchers have said. A paper in the journal International Higher...
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Put that in your pipe and drink it
Humankind worked something of a miracle in the second half of the 20th century. Population trebled, and water consumption increased in proportion. The limits of our resources were tested. But we...
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Number of top earners doubles
A quarter of male academics - but just 9 per cent of women - are paid more than £50K. Melanie Newman reports.The number of academic staff earning more than £50,000 a year has doubled in five years,...
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Seriously fresh
A new breed of scholars is expanding the academy by turning music festivals, Lego and puppets into objects and tools of study. Hannah Fearn reports from 'out there'
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Don't 'panic' over science-shy Britons, ESRC says
Britain is gripped by an unfounded "moral panic" that it needs to produce more home-grown science graduates to keep the economy competitive, the director of a six-year, £5 million science and society...
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Languages and linguistics round-up
Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol. Author Lynda Muggleston. Edition Second. Publisher Oxford University Press. Pages 368. Price £17.99. ISBN 9780199250622.This history of the rise...
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The new home of the best and brightest?
As the University of Melbourne implements a radical new higher education model, some UK universities are showing interest in following suit. Hannah Fearn reports. Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the...
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Published this week
(J) = Review forthcomingARCHITECTURE- (J) The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New YorkBy Gail Fenske. University of Chicago Press, £34.00. ISBN...
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Diplomatic Chinese whispers
Seize the Hour
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UK is urged to look towards Gulf States
UK universities are missing a "golden opportunity" to set up campuses in the Middle East's Gulf states, according to an expert on higher education there. Chris Davidson is concerned that UK...