Origin of species? How about origin of property?
Universities could face expensive legal action and embarrassing ethical questions if they don't formulate rules on how to manage their cultural property.The warning comes from University College...
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Drayson pledge on science coverage
Scientists 'misrepresented' in media encouraged to contact minister for help. Zoë Corbyn reports
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A united front for the future
Bill Wakeham reflects on the challenges ahead and the need for unions to join employers in overcoming them
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Legacies of tarnished revolutionaries rest in far too much peace
Searching for the resting places of two greats of human sciences, Yiannis Gabriel unlocks the door to Freud and keeps left for Marx
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Controversial US course shows there's a fine line between stupidity and cleverness
It is not something a university would normally want to be associated with, but students in the US are queuing to sign up for a course on stupidity.The class at Los Angeles' Occidental College - the...
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Sex, drugs and snobs: ITV piles on the clichés
Evil professors, outrageous initiation rites and stupendously snobbish students: these are not the images Oxbridge wants to cultivate, but such stereotypes abound in Trinity, a new ITV2 drama set at...
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Lib Dems' fees stance in limbo
'No decision' to mothball abolition plans despite leader's comments. Melanie Newman reports
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The week in higher education
"Bunk beds, night lectures, late loans. Welcome to university life in 2009." The difficulties facing this year's student intake were painfully clear last week when the student-loan system fell into...
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It's evolution, not revolution for REF
Continuities with RAE, but impact to equal one quarter of assessment scores. Zoë Corbyn reports
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News in brief
Public engagementCut out the 'mixed messages'British academics are confused by "mixed messages" from funding bodies and universities about how best to communicate their research findings, according...
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Daytime TV: Seat of learning
Gary Day is unpersuaded by Derren Brown, weeps for Naples and is unenlightened by Trinity
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Have cheque, will qualify
"Quite outrageous." That was the immediate reaction of our Head of Outside Funding, Georgina Flourish, to the news in ߣߣÊÓƵ that a Cardiff University report was recommending "a...
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Play up and play the game
Felipe Fernández-Armesto experiences a Damascene sporting conversion
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Leader: Don't drive people to MP3 for HE
Hard times are no excuse to restrict access and leave many to experience higher education only through downloads