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These pictures of women - one wearing a blue silk headdress, the other displaying her gold engagement jewellery and hennaed hands - were taken in rural Turkey in the 1980s.

These pictures of women - one wearing a blue silk headdress, the other displaying her gold engagement jewellery and hennaed hands - were taken in rural Turkey in the 1980s.
University of WestminsterDavid DernieDavid Dernie has been made dean of the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster. He joins from De Montfort University,...
The economic woes of public universities in the US present 鈥榓 prime opportunity鈥 for institutions with money to swoop in and snatch up staff. Jon Marcus reports

Sold a lemon - The sour taste of research fraud - and what universities can do about it

Even more fascinating than the con artists who assume others鈥 identities are the people who are desperate to believe them, suggests Rohan McWilliam

Almost despite himself, Ken Plummer is beguiled by an eloquent elegy for queerdom鈥檚 camp old days

Alan Ryan on the benefits of emigration for the UK鈥檚 huddled student masses

A leading champion of continuing education has died.Malcolm Barry was born on 22 April 1950 and educated at Greenford County Grammar School in London, where he became school captain.A double bassist...

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University of SurreyHearty goodbye and good riddanceStudents raised thousands of pounds for the British Heart Foundation by recycling unwanted items from their rooms at the end of the academic year....

A renowned immunologist whose life was turned upside down when it emerged that one of his postdoctoral researchers had falsified experimental results tells Paul Jump that the sector needs a culture...
The Scottish government has unveiled a package of extra financial support for students.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-13 will be published on Wednesday 3 October, it was confirmed this week.
Universities are facing a 鈥渟tudent recruitment crisis鈥 in clearing and some are 2,000 short of their number targets, according to a marketing consultancy.

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed