Interview with Lord Waldegrave
The former Cabinet minister on listening to jazz pianist Art Tatum, ambitions to be Stirling Moss, and how we shouldn’t view all politicians as crooks
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University staff in line for 1 per cent pay increase
Above-inflation deal for university staff still lags behind pay increases seen elsewhere in the UK this year
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Your toughest experiment: taking the lead in the lab
Eight scientists share the secrets of being a successful principal investigator
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Interview with David Sobral
We talk human existence, Cristiano Ronaldo and the problems with Portugal’s higher education system with Lancaster’s new astrophysicist
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Can dressing down harm your career?
Dress to impress if you want students in your corner, claims US study
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Chinese student market: can the West weather a perfect storm?
David Matthews considers a flurry of ‘threats’ to the conveyor belt of arrivals and what Western campuses can do to shockproof their systems
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Germany: an alternative route to excellence
There’s a tension between Germany’s desire to be in the global elite of higher education while remaining egalitarian. John Morgan reports
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Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present, by Gary Gerstle
Elizabeth Cobbs on an enlightening and alarming study of how the central state has had to fight for its legitimacy
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Interview with Jackie Hunter
We talk to the research council CEO about pharmaceutical drugs modelling and a childhood interest in studying animal remains
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Northumbria quits University Alliance
Strong research result in the REF ‘triggered’ exit from the mission group
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Graduate earnings: what will politicians do with the data?
Sector experts variously predict benefits and damage from lifting the lid on who earns what
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Campus sport is alive and kicking in the UK
University games are worth standing up for, say Vince Mayne and Ian Diamond
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Development strategies in scientific research
Brussels, 25 Feb 2003 The University of Verona is hosting a meeting entitled 'development strategies in scientific research: mobility and strengthening of human capital' on 28 February. The event is...
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New and noteworthy – 10 December 2015
From Lehman Brothers to La Leche League via disaster capitalism and 'the new retirement': new academic books worth adding to your reading list