No 'magic bullet': try this amulet
Conference debates role of alternative therapies in mental health services. Matthew Reisz reports
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Moving teacher training from universities will 'risk quality'
UCET chief warns against 'damaging' plans to switch funding to schools. Sarah Cunnane reports
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Staff fear fewer bins may soil university's image
After the funding cuts come the cost-saving measures: academics at the University of Aberdeen have been asked to take on cleaning duties in an attempt to save money.Staff have been ordered to dispose...
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News in brief
Published research'Flawed' paper pulledA paper describing a technique to identify all metabolic activity in a population of cells has been retracted, even though its main corresponding author insists...
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Surprise twist in 'fruitbatgate' row
Prize for lecturer despite his application for judicial review in harassment case. Hannah Fearn reports
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Changing interests
The narrow make-up of the Browne panel provides evidence of a profound shift in higher education policymaking, says Gareth Dale
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Masterclass in engagement
From BBC Radio 4 to St Peter's, Oxford, Mark Damazer has worked to put scholarship in the spotlight. Matthew Reisz reports
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In the nature of things
Duncan Wu on the sheer delight of Arcimboldo's punning, painstaking and peerless portraits
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Daytime TV: Losing everything
Those who sleep rough have pasts full of pain. Gary Day watches a fight for survival in lives of misery
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Diary
LondonThe Train DriverAthol Fugard, probably South Africa's best-known dramatist, produced definitive exposés of labour conditions and miscegenation laws under apartheid in plays such as Boesman and...
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The Pick - Under the influence
High Society: Mind-altering Drugs in History and CultureThe Wellcome Collection, London, until February 2011"Every society", claims curator Mike Jay, "is a high society." A Cypriot "juglet" from...
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Impact loses impact shock
Suggestions that the Higher Education Funding Council for England has almost totally capitulated to its critics by substantially redefining the notion of impact have been hotly denied by Brian Bryan...
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Mass spectacle
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on a dazzling display of gridiron, greatness and God
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Leader: In the near distance, liberation
Although lecturers are wary of the online courses now seen as financial lifelines, they may offer unexpected scholarly benefits
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