Leader: Agents of potential misfortune
With immigration and university standards hot issues, any impropriety involving recruiters abroad could tar the sector
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From Where I Sit - Remembrance of medicine past
Imagine this: a miniature orchestra made of mice skeletons playing a "rhapsody in death". Tiny claws hold minute instruments in front of minuscule music stands, while a petite conductor waves an...
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Odds and quads
In 1848, the Royal Polytechnic Institution on London's Regent Street installed a 1,000-seat theatre, purpose-built for "optical exhibitions" such as magic lantern shows. It was here that Charles...
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Appointments
Robert Gordon UniversityStephen VertigansRobert Gordon University has appointed Stephen Vertigans head of the School of Applied Social Studies. Professor Vertigans took up the role full time last...
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Lion rampant, sleeping dragon
On most indices, a comparison of the Welsh and Scottish academies shows that the latter holds the aces. As the Saltire soars, will mergers allow Wales to cope with the shock waves generated by...
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5 July 2012
Overtaking the Joneses - Scots triumph in Celtic comparison
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With all due disrespect
Felipe Fernández-Armesto urges students to take on tutors in a war of ideas
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David Bailey's East End
From the swinging Sixties of Shrimpton and the Krays to the 2012 Games, David Bailey’s eye captures ever-mutable London
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Cogitate, don't regurgitate
George MacDonald Ross argues that to stamp out plagiarism, we must create an environment in which students are forced to think for themselves, while Jude Carroll has practical advice on redesigning...
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Haggling over the cost of gold (1 of 2)
As a funder dedicated to ensuring that the research we support generates the maximum possible benefit for society, the Wellcome Trust strongly supports the proposed direction set out by the Working...
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Haggling over the cost of gold (2 of 2)
I fear that if we move to the gold open-access model, it will be disproportionately harmful to researchers outside large groups and to more junior members of staff who are less able to afford the...
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Sabine MacCormack, 1941-2012
A historian of "exuberant energies", equally at home in the worlds of ancient Rome and colonial Latin America, has died.Sabine MacCormack was born in Frankfurt on 24 February 1941 and studied...
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THE Scholarly Web
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Campus round-up
Uclan/Manchester MetropolitanUdderly uniqueArchaeology students have excavated an example of a woman buried with a cow. The students from the University of Central Lancashire and Manchester...
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Grand fee paid for each foreign student
THE investigation shows almost £60m spent on agents’ commissions. David Matthews reports