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Canada seeks long-term relationship with growing higher education superpower. Jon Marcus reports

Canada seeks long-term relationship with growing higher education superpower. Jon Marcus reports

Unlike our major competitors, the UK has avoided a major research misconduct scandal over the past decade, but unless the government and the academy shake off their complacency, we won’t be ready...
The UK's new research integrity concordat is an insufficient bulwark against the high risk of a future storm over misconduct
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I was asked last week to suggest a "higher education book" that the prime minister of a Central Asian nation could read on his vacation. He wanted something that would deepen his understanding of...

These works all form part of the New Hall Art Collection, one of the most significant assemblages of women's art in Europe. It is housed in what is now Murray Edwards College, one of the University...
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...

Make no bones - Is the UK running headlong towards a major research misconduct scandal?

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

Tristan Bekinschtein takes a trip with the Che Guevara of cognitive neuroscience

A community can run wisely and well without market values, Alan Ryan says
Conferences should be occasions for sharing and engagement, but Charles Husband too often sees only selfish and impolite behaviour

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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