Hoax history is bunk but there are truths to be learned from it
Lying About the Past course aims to teach students method and scepticism. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
Regent's College received glowing praise after it became the latest private institution to secure degree-awarding powers. A leader in The Times on July declared that the award "introduces a welcome...
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Leader: Young guns can't go for it
Hefce figures show that the proportion of scholars under 30 is falling: the implications for the sector's future could be severe
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From Where I Sit - Corridors of uncertainty
At a symposium I attended recently, a senior academic apologised in advance if the paper she was delivering wasn't up to scratch. She'd had a harrowing week, she said, as sweeping cuts had been...
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Odds and Quads
The main illustration is taken from the Ripley Scroll (one of about 20 surviving copies) held by the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge.Drawing on the work of the author and alchemist...
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Appointments
University of SouthamptonJenny FlemingAn academic who has spent more than 15 years working with police agencies worldwide on a number of interdisciplinary topics has become co-director of a...
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To serve and reflect
In the US academy, engagement with the surrounding community and learning through service are 150-year-old ideals whose time has come again - but is the driving force altruism or self-interest?
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2 August 2012
A&E and R&D - Building research into the fabric of the NHS
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The Genius of Hitchcock: Celebrating Cinema's Master of Suspense
A season dedicated to the UK鈥檚 greatest film-maker shows that there is more to his sensibility than misogyny, Davina Quinlivan argues
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Anne Dunn, 1950-2012
A successful broadcaster who went on to become a leading academic expert in the field has died.Anne Dunn was born in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire on 12 August 1950 and educated at St Paul's Girls...
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Campus round-up
Universities of Edinburgh and SheffieldTrouble aheadResearchers have used US military data from the war in Afghanistan to establish a model that can predict which regions of the country are more...
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Brazil's brightest head to US after failing UK language test
British border bureaucracy thwarts Science Without Borders scheme. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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QAA logo available to universities as quality mark
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education has launched a quality mark to assure students about standards in higher education.
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London 2012 legacy to include medical research centre
The anti-doping facilities serving the London 2012 Games will become a 鈥済roundbreaking鈥 research centre into personalised medicine after the Olympics have ended, it has been announced.