Film review: Soul Surfer
It's only the shark that Duncan Wu feels for in a self-righteous true-life tale of triumph over tragedy
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TV reviews: Euro 2012 Qualifier Live & Britain's Got Talent
If this is our best in sport and entertainment, mourns Gary Day, it doesn't engender national pride
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David Turnock, 1938-2011
Anyone roaming the halls of the geography department at the University of Leicester in the 1970s and 1980s would have been familiar with David Turnock and his Imperial typewriter; the sound of his...
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THE Scholarly Web
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Campus round-up
University of WarwickSee it, smell it, love itA trip to the zoo can form a vital part of a child's education about science and conservation, according to a study. Research conducted at London Zoo by...
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Odds and quads
These amulets form part of a collection held at the University of Michigan's Taubman Health Sciences Library.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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9 June 2011
Machines for loving - Meet your new best friend, carer and confidant
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Inside Higher Ed: Thank you for the scholarship
By Kevin Kiley, for Inside Higher Ed
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Fresh flashpoint in New College backlash
The backlash against plans for a new £18,000-a-year college for the humanities intensified when protesters set off a flare during a talk by the institution’s founding master.
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Dons agree with Oxford movement: ‘no confidence’ in Willetts
Academics at the University of Oxford have voted through a motion of “no confidence” in David Willetts, the universities and science minister.
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New College, curiously familiar courses
Writing course materials for Goldsmiths was a young Gabriel Egan’s first scholarly work. Two decades later, they’re part of a ‘superstar’ institution’s offerings
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PAC minds the gap: MPs sound warning over fees reform
An influential cross-party committee of MPs has warned that the government could face a funding gap of “several hundred million pounds” as a result of its policy on tuition fees and raised the...
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The perils of online ‘friendship’
Thinking of befriending your students on a social-media site? You may want to think again. While it may be a good way to meet students “on their terms”, a lawyer specialising in the use of social...
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Top names, top whack: new humanities-focused institution to charge £18K fees
A new private university college is to be launched, specialising in the arts and humanities and charging tuition fees of £18,000 a year.