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Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator, by Andreas Bernard

Ulrike Zitzlsperger on how the ‘vertical railway’ has changed our society and our buildings

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Source: CourseraDownload the podcastAssociate professor of public international law at the University of Copenhagen, Ebrahim Afsah, talks about his Coursera massive open online course, Constitutional...

17 April 2014

Asset analysis - Universities’ financial health check: the bottom line on £9,000 fees

World in brief - 17 April 2014

United StatesNot a man in institutional eyesThousands of people have signed a petition urging George Fox University in Oregon to allow a transgender student to live in a men’s dormitory during his...

Howard Erskine-Hill, 1936-2014

A Cambridge professor of literary history has died

Q&A with Jim Al-Khalili

We speak to the theoretical physicist, EPSRC RISE Leader and professor of public engagement in science at the University of Surrey

ɫ��ֱ�� Scholarly Web - 17 April 2014

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Grant winners - 17 April 2014

Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Morgan BeebyInstitution: Imperial College LondonValue: £117,620Evolutionary pathways to rotary motors: evolution and mechanism of the...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 17 April 2014

Data driven

As a member of the group that was formed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England to look into student information and which commissioned the report referred to in the article “More...

Taxing graduates

According to Emran Mian, a graduate tax would solve none of the problems the current system of student loans faces (“A terrible policy at a terrible time”, Opinion, www.timeshighereducation.co.uk,  ...

If...

If you can keep your head, when all about youAre losing theirs because of QAAIf UEG cannot survive without youWith Provost, Deans and PVCs at playIf you can wait, and not be tired by waitingHoping...

Acts of mimicry

Now I get it (“The big business of remuneration”, Features, 3 April). Perhaps as a strategy to enhance their packages, vice-chancellors adopt the language, ideas and practices of their paymasters,...

Placements position

I found the report on a survey that discovered that nearly all undergraduates say work placements and careers advice are valuable, but that less than half end up using them (“Work experience: it’s a...

Imperfect policies

The suicide of Charlotte Coursier and the subsequent investigation into allegations of harassment have raised complex and very troubling issues for the University of Oxford in general and for the...