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US told to use data, not hunches, to recruit abroad
World Education Services report stresses diversity of applicants
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Wellcome offers cash for public engagement
Dedicated funding and support for UK scientists
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Blurring boundaries of confidentiality
Malcolm Gillies hesitates before marking any documents ‘For your eyes only’
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Hazel Christie, David Eastwood, Matthew Feldman, Stephen Halliday, R.C. Richardson...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Richard Hoggart: Virtue and Reward, by Fred Inglis
Tom Steele welcomes a painstakingly researched account of the renowned cultural critic’s legacy
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Working Lives: Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945- 2007, by Linda McDowell
Pat Thane on a book that provides important insights into the experience of female immigrants
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Slow Reading in a Hurried Age, by David Mikics
Are we losing sight of the purpose of reading? Rachel Bowlby isn’t sure she needs instruction
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Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV, by Joe Moran
Gary Day enjoys the facts but would have appreciated some more analysis in a comprehensive review of all aspects of television
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The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement, by Carrie Rosefsky Wickham
Christina Hellmich applauds the clear analysis that reveals a complex array of internal divisions, power struggles and conflicting ideological trends in the Brotherhood
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STEM growth, SWAN song
The Campaign for Science and Engineering warmly welcomes the announcement made by David Willetts, the universities and science minister, during his speech at the Conservative Party conference of...
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Spanners in the works
I have a first from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in engineering from Imperial College London. I am a chartered engineer with 13 years’ industrial experience. I have published widely in peer-...
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Failure by analogy
The attempts by Chibuihem Stanley Amalaha, a postgraduate chemical engineering student at the University of Lagos, to use science to prove that homosexuality is unnatural and wrong are disturbing (...
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Fascinating rhythm
It is great news that UK-Brazil collaboration is a rapidly growing “special relationship” (News, 3 October). THE’s coverage reported on factors such as funding and citations, but there is another...
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Gut instinct winded
Nigel Probert (Letters, 3 October) opposes student feedback on the grounds that the teacher’s intuition is “a natural process more immediate and more valuable than formal feedback”. Sir Karl Popper...