THE podcast: 10-16 July 2014 issue review
Download the podcastA ruling suggesting that universities may soon have to make public the salaries of high-earning academics and managers, how crowdsourcing is revolutionising the way research is...
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Controlling impulses
Like Christopher Beedham (“A vote to leave the market”, Letters, 3 July), I am an Englishman living in Scotland, but unlike him I will not be voting for independence in the referendum. There are...
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Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 10 July 2014
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The week in higher education - 10 July 2014
One of higher education’s most colourful leading figures has retired from his role. Terence Kealey, vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham, which was until recently the UK’s only private...
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Ashridge Business School and Hult International Business School announce tie-up
A merger could enable the US school to use Ashridge’s degree-awarding powers
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Beware uppity students, warns Jamie Targett
“Students have a place at Poppleton. But that place is not at the top table.”This was the uncompromising response of Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, to what he called the “frankly...
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Grant winners - 10 July 2014
Royal SocietyWolfson Research Merit AwardsAwards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancementAward winner: Mark GrossInstitution: University of CambridgeMirror symmetry and...
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Geoffrey Alderman, Caroline Flurey, Richard Howells, Karen McAulay and John Shand...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class 1910-2010, by Selina Todd
Clare Griffiths appraises a century of untold tales about life on the bottom rung of the social ladder
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Punch Historical Archive goes online
150 years of the satirical magazine is now available to researchers
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The Story of Pain, From Prayer to Painkillers, by Joanna Bourke
Brian Hurwitz on the inadequacy of language when it comes to describing physical suffering
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Books for Children, Books for Adults: Age and the Novel from Defoe to James, by Teresa Michals
Which came first, the children’s novel or the adult novel? Shelley King finds out
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Arnold Schoenberg’s 'A Survivor From Warsaw' in Postwar Europe, by Joy H. Calico
David Revill explores a composer’s symbolic musical remigration during the early Cold War
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Inna Sovsun: Ukraine's youngest minister plans academy shake-up
Minister keen to reform archaic system, including consolidation of institutions, end to two-track admissions
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Q&A with Dame Jessica Corner
We speak to the new chair of the Council of Deans of Health