EU patent court to establish branch in UK
London will host the pharmaceuticals division of a new European court designed to handle patent disputes, the heads of European Union states agreed on 29 June.
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Engage with business to make a difference, Saïd scholar advises academy
A distinguished organisational theorist has called on academics to be far more willing to engage with business in order to co-produce work that can traverse the “double hurdle of scholarly and policy...
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Admissions tutors looking for independent thinkers, poll finds
University admissions officers are most impressed by applicants who demonstrate a desire to study independently, a new poll has found.
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A genital reminder for ‘exam howlers’
With the finals done and dusted for another year, ߣߣƵ is making a final call for entries to its “exam howlers” competition, in which lecturers share their favourite examples of...
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Exam results, not background, determine university access
Universities do not discriminate against poorer students and differences in participation are instead driven by exam results, a study suggests.
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Campus Review: Strewth! Institutions must mind students’ language
ߣߣƵ has set a national framework for proficiency after consultation between universities, government and industry
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New chief scientific adviser announced
Sir Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust, has been appointed as the UK’s next chief scientific adviser.
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Seducing the Subconscious: The Psychology of Emotional Influence in Advertising
Isabelle Szmigin examines how billboards and commercials lure us into buying certain products
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A Kingdom United: Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in Britain and Ireland
The public response in the UK to the approach of war and its outbreak in August 1914 has been depicted by many historians as one of irrational enthusiasm, fever and jingoism. It is a view that has...
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Shakespeare in America
At the time of writing, Shakespeare's Globe is staging his oeuvre in a variety of languages including King John in Armenian, Hamlet in Lithuanian and Troilus and Cressida in Maori. There is also a...
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Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis
Plugging the income gap could prevent another economic landslide, discovers Stewart Lansley
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man: Psychoanalysis and Masculinity
The title of this important book echoes both Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird and Henry Louis Gates Jr's Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man. Like Stevens and Gates,...
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The Intelligence Paradox: Why the Intelligent Choice Isn't Always the Smart One
Calling himself a scientific fundamentalist, evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa does not shy away from controversy. Arguing with fundamentalists is usually futile, but when his latest book...
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United StatesRavages of ageingA US university system is facing soaring costs for pensions and retired employees' healthcare that are putting pressure on officials to raise tuition fees still further...
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Health begets wealth in the little land of opportunity
One of Europe's smallest states has big plans for medical research, writes Jack Grove in Luxembourg