Top 20 nations in output and world share for the sciences and social sciences
Data provided by Thomson Reuters National Science Indicators (ESI fields) database, 1981-2008 (table based on data from 2004-08 only)
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The smart drugs won’t work
The argument for boosting people’s mental performance with substances such as Ritalin betrays a reductive view of learning, says Paul Cooper
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Graduation ceremonies
This week we are pleased to carry the following recommendations from our Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, on body control during the forthcoming graduation ceremoniesTo all members of...
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Well, what did you expect?
The burgeoning culture of complaints delivers no surprises for Alan Ryan
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Unite to fight the betrayal
Ministers led students on then abandoned them in rough weather. Universities must stick together to avoid the same fate
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From where I sit - Meetings of more than minds
Academic conferences are sometimes dismissed as frivolous and self-indulgent, even - or perhaps especially - by those who take part in them.And frankly, given that my last paper was delivered at 8 o'...
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Peter Townsend, 1928-2009
Peter Townsend, a pioneering sociologist and poverty campaigner, has died.He was born in Middlesbrough on 6 April 1928 and brought up by his mother and grandmother.Although he secured scholarships to...
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University of Oxford - Gates boost to malaria research
An international network of malaria scientists is to be established following a $20 million (£12.5 million) grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance...
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Reductionism won't save the world
As confirmed interdisciplinarians, there were very few points with which we could agree in Robert Segal's article "Crossing borders can lead to gold - but so can digging deep" (18 June). Having...
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Impact assessment
I was at the research excellence framework conference last week ("Hefce backs off citations in favour of peer review in REF", 18 June).Your focus on what we pretty much knew already - that peer...
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Tongue-tied 1
Recent weeks have seen a fresh wave of anxiety concerning the health of modern languages in the UK at all levels of education.How comforting it is, therefore, to read in the "education strategy" of...
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Tongue-tied 2
Futurologist Ian Pearson ("Wisdom received, over and out", 18 June) suggests that "more rapid reverse engineering of brain processes" coupled with an alleged exponential progress in technology will...
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Face value 1
Deborah Rogers' view of Facebook is unnecessarily negative ("I poke dead people: the paradox of Facebook", 18 June). The amusement to be found in poking, joining frivolous "interest" groups and...
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Face value 2
It was amusing to see Deborah Rogers suggest that Facebook may have "jumped the shark".The phrase originated from an episode of the US television series Happy Days in which, allegedly, the...