The Pick - Sexual Nature
Credit: Green Porno/SundanceSexual NatureNatural History Museum, LondonUntil 2 OctoberSex has been around for about a billion years - plenty of time for it to get complicated. Male bedbugs stab their...
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Not my children!
"Thanks, but no thanks." That was the shock response from Mrs Lillian Daunting, a spokesperson for our university cleaning staff, to the proposal from the Unite union that the children of cleaners...
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Urania's lessons for Clio
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the humanities' need for scientific insights
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Research Intelligence - Why blue skies is still vital
The MRC's head knows it must deliver impact, but he tells Paul Jump that he's equally aware of the need to help the best ideas germinate
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The Week in Higher Education
The life of the climate scientist has not been an easy one as the debate with global warming sceptics has grown ugly over the past year or two. Now, one climate scientist has gone on the attack,...
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Leader: Count the collateral damage
We must not let the high-stakes political game being played by ministers and v-cs overshadow the human toll change can exact
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From where I sit - Why the mighty are falling
In the mid-1980s, when I was a university student, the stereotype of Chinese universities was that they were ivory towers. And in the 1990s, there was a popular saying about the widespread corruption...
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Arts review: Greenland
A climate-change play at the National fails to either inform or entertain Graham Farmelo despite the cast’s commitment
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Charles R. O'Melia, 1934-2010
Charles R. O'Melia, an expert on water treatment, was known among his peers as someone who retained a humble demeanour despite being a leading scholar in his field.The professor emeritus in the...
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ߣߣÊÓƵ Student Experience Survey
Prospectus promises don’t always match reality, so how can young people get what they need to make an informed choice? As the ߣߣÊÓƵ Student Experience Survey reveals what...
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A guide to post-qualification anxieties (1 of 2)
In her leader "Drop the guessing games" (10 February), Ann Mroz agrees that the logic of the post-qualifications applications system seems "unchallengeable".I did my undergraduate degree in Hong Kong...
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A guide to post-qualification anxieties (2 of 2)
The debate about PQA presumes that the only qualifications that matter for entry to higher education are A levels. This in turn makes the leap of faith that there is a complete correlation between A-...
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Halt 'genocide' of academe
I work in a post-1992 university that is considered to be one of the more successful of the new universities and is in a healthy financial position. Last week, our vice-chancellor gave an open...
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Regulator, not dictator
Steven Schwartz's opinion piece on the establishment of a new regulator for ߣߣÊÓƵn universities ("Irreconcilable differences", January) is a colourful and imaginative reflection on some of the...
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Successful Venture
The advisers to David Willetts, the universities and science minister, have doubtless drawn his attention to the list of the world's top 100 chemists published last week ("Acid test: clearly label a...