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LondonChouf OuchoufIn the medina of Tangiers, people live 10 to a house and it's easy to be overlooked. If you don't shout, you'll never be heard; if you don't push to the front, you'll never be seen...
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The Pick - Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography
Credit: Untitled (from The Brave Ones series)/Zwelethu Mthethwa/Jack Shainman GalleryFigures & Fictions: Contemporary South African PhotographyVictoria and Albert Museum, LondonPhotography has...
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'It's the system what done it' - Dave
The two men in sole charge of our university maintenance, "Dave" and "Vince", have admitted that they are dealing with the university's pressing infrastructural crisis by "largely making things up as...
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Leader: Ape market or come together?
The peaceable bonobo, not the aggressive chimp, may offer a better model for human origins and the sector's development
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Tweet sensations
Tim Birkhead finds a valuable lesson in the story of the bullfinch trainers
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Research intelligence - Flowering in the sandpit
Enthusiastic response to UK-US 'ideas lab' may see photosynthesis research blossom. Paul Jump reports
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The week in higher education
David Willetts has supposedly transformed from true blue to scourge of the middle classes in recent months, and changes to student support arrangements unveiled on 14 April sparked renewed fury from...
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From where I sit - A hub of global ambition
Several factors have helped Kazakhstan grow rapidly in the two decades that it has been an independent country, among them abundant natural resources and proximity to large markets in Europe and Asia...
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Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape
The Catalan artist lauded for his colour, language and playfulness was also, Alex Danchev writes, deeply if quietly concerned with the matter of liberty
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Marshall Grossman, 1948-2011
Marshall Grossman was a renowned and award-winning Milton scholar who could make people "laugh hard and think harder".He studied for his first degree at the State University of New York, Binghamton,...
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Ariel casts out Caliban
The concept of the 'killer-ape' offers a pessimistic reflection of humanity and its genesis, but the latest research shows that a primate species whose success is based on mutual aid and pleasure,...
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Leading questions
A French conference debates how to cultivate leadership qualities in MBA students, without losing sight of what really matters in life. Matthew Reisz observes
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Prescription to treat real Oxbridge scandal
David Cameron looks fit to give David Lammy a run for his money in terms of ignorant comments about Oxbridge admissions (The week in higher education, 14 April). Migrants everywhere want their...
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This is no place for slogans (1 of 2)
The reaction of the Arts and Humanities Research Council to widespread concern within the academy at the role that the "Big Society" plays in its "Delivery Plan" causes us grave concern. The AHRC has...
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This is no place for slogans (2 of 2)
We write to express our strong support for the views put forward by Donald Braben et al. regarding Research Councils UK's Pathways to Impact process ("Corrosive impact merits only dismissal", Letters...