Sense of style, no lack of substance
Image consultant: 鈥榡umble sale鈥 dress code does not an intellectual make. Matthew Reisz writes
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Talk of fair play is not enough
David Cameron can court India鈥檚 students all he likes, but the UK鈥檚 immigration policy is hardly bowling them over
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14 - 21 February 2013 - The week in higher education
A sideways look at the week鈥檚 big stories
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Surprise order of Bath has landed us with a right royal chancer
Joanna Lewis asks whether appointing 鈥榓 decent enough upper-class numpty鈥 as chancellor is the best her alma mater can do
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Big picture from all angles
Humanities must embrace interdisciplinarity and reclaim their key role in our fractured world, says Michael Worton
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GMC may expand sanctions for failing UK medical schools
Regulator to review range of options for institutions falling short on quality measures
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Institute of the Arts Barcelona makes pitch to UK performing arts students
New UK-validated for-profit college to sell itself on sun, sea and low fees
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Bang! A History of Britain in the 1980s by Graham Stewart
Maud Anne Bracke considers an analysis of a revolutionary decade fails to offer a new perspective
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The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity by Robert Louis Wilken
Robert A. Segal on a comprehensive study of the growth of the world鈥檚 biggest religion
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Karen McAulay, Jules Pretty, Peter J. Smith, Sharon Wheeler and Sue White...
鈥n The House on an Irish Hillside, One Billion Hungry, Our Man in Havana, Return to the Stones and Water: All That Matters
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CDBU cordially invites...
Sir Adrian Smith, vice-chancellor of the University of London, chastises colleagues in the Council for the Defence of British Universities who take 鈥渁 rather naive view that beauty, truth and...
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Healthy PR exercise
Negative comments about the University of Leicester鈥檚 handling of the Richard III announcement show how far we have to go before professional public relations is accepted by all research disciplines...
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Watered-down argument
If psychotherapists want respect for alternatives to randomised controlled trials, they must outline them clearly, not model their rhetoric on that of homeopaths (鈥淛ury鈥檚 out on trial by ideological...
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Where beagles share
Roger Brown (Letters, 14 February) attacks our independent schools with the usual charge of elitism and more especially damns them for spending money on beagle kennels. Recent research at the...
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Open to abuse? We do it to ourselves
Yet more catastrophic timidity from the UK鈥檚 universities, this time over open access (鈥淔ool鈥檚 gold?鈥, 14 February). The system being proposed is one in which universities and academics will gain...