One-course town with a teaching model the world wants to copy
College of the Atlantic focuses on human ecology and lets students lead the way. Jon Marcus reports
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Caps in the air? No delight from research elite over Willetts’ hint at keeping tuition fees limit
An indication by David Willetts that the government is leaning towards retaining a hard cap on tuition fees has provoked a swift response from the elite research universities, which have lobbied hard...
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University of Dundee to axe 195 jobs
The University of Dundee is to cut up to 195 jobs as part of a “strategic review” of its activities.
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CSR 2010: Two brains, two caps? Fees decision ‘cannot wait’
David Willetts has set out further details of the government’s plans for reforming the academy, announcing that proposals on the future of tuition fees will be submitted to Parliament before...
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CSR 2010: A curate’s egg
The coalition’s qualified support for science recognises that universities are the ‘jewels’ in the UK’s economic crown, argues Paul Clark. But the huge cuts to non-STEM teaching require decisions to...
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China: A Modern History
Kerry Brown on a masterfully concise account of two tumultuous centuries in the life of a giant
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Honeybee Democracy
Swarm behaviour can teach people a lot about collective decision-making, Zachary Huang finds
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History and Neorealism
The academic study of international relations has taken rather different forms in the US and the UK. It is normally classed as a branch of political science in the US, where that discipline is...
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The Canon: Totemism by Claude Lévi-Strauss
I recently wrote a piece celebrating the longevity of Claude Lévi-Strauss. His unfortunate death while it was in press converted what was intended as sincere tribute into sneering irony. But the...
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Seurat Re-viewed
Alex Danchev on an adventurous collection that brings the pointillist's remarkable oeuvre to life
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The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution
What is it that makes humans different? The Artificial Ape seeks to answer this question by showing how technology, which originated as far back as 2.6 million years ago with the Australopithecines,...
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The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects
Roberto Abadie has written an absorbing ethnographic study of clinical trials that focuses not on the clinic or the clinicians, the science or its development, but the research participants in phase...
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University of Greenwich - Designs for survival
People who were evacuated from trains, stations and buildings during the 7 July 2005 bombings in London are being asked to help an expert who studies behaviour during major disasters. Ed Galea,...
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Bangor University - Historical legacy
A historian who did much to establish Welsh history as a serious academic subject is to be commemorated with a biennial public lecture in his name. Although John Edward Lloyd (1861-1947) played a...
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Northumbria University - Watch and go
An academic's design for a portable wildlife observatory is to become a reality. Paul Jones, director of architecture programmes in the School of the Built and Natural Environment at Northumbria...