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Bucks New UniversityTheo GavrielidesBucks New University has appointed Theo Gavrielides visiting professor in youth policy at its School of Social Sciences, Primary Care and Education and made him a...
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12 July 2012
Make no bones - Is the UK running headlong towards a major research misconduct scandal?
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Metamorphosis: Titian 2012
Raphael Lyne on the shape-shifting fascination to be found in the meeting of Greek myth, Roman and modern British verse and Titian’s indelible hues
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Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
Tristan Bekinschtein takes a trip with the Che Guevara of cognitive neuroscience
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Commons revolt
A community can run wisely and well without market values, Alan Ryan says
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Discourse and discourtesy
Conferences should be occasions for sharing and engagement, but Charles Husband too often sees only selfish and impolite behaviour
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Jack Pridham, 1929-2012
A leading plant biochemist who delighted in scientific outreach - and practical jokes - has died.Jack Pridham was born on May 1929 and educated at Thornbury Grammar School in Gloucestershire, where...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
Imperial College LondonBugs check in but don't check outA centre for the study of some of the world's most life-threatening bacterial infections has been launched. The Medical Research Council Centre...
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Research intelligence - The prodigal returns to open arms
Impact makes ߣߣÊÓƵn comeback after successful UK tour. Paul Jump reports
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Utopias: A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities, by Howard P. Segal
Utopianism is in a bad way. Stalin’s Soviet Union, Hitler’s Germany and Pol Pot’s Kampuchea are regularly disinterred as terrifying examples of humanity’s attempts to actualise ideal societies, with...
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Record donation to support poorest Oxford undergraduates
The University of Oxford has received a record £75 million donation that will be used to support disadvantaged undergraduates.
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No U-turn ahead on overseas students, says Green
The immigration minister has told a cross-party group of MPs that any reports suggesting that the government will remove international students from net migration figures are not true.
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Animal use in experiments continues to rise
The number of animals used in scientific research in the UK rose by 2 per cent last year, figures from the Home Office show.
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You only live twice: Bond girl's painful journey to time renewed
An academic psychologist has joined forces with a former Bond girl and her film director husband to create a television documentary about the after-effects of brain injury.