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News in Brief
Whitehall budget squeezeBeddington sounds R&D warningThe Government's Chief Scientific Adviser has expressed concern that departmental research and development budgets will shrink as a result of...
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Stones and roses
Gary Day on Stonehenge (according to Time Team), flower arranging (by the WI), memories and poetry
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Spaghetti function
The University of Poppleton made the headlines this week as journalists picked up on research by Dr Ted Thorndike of our Department of Psychology showing how valuable clues to an individual's...
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1588 and all that
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto punctures a few national illusions
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewersFred Inglis is emeritus professor of cultural studies, University of Sheffield. He is reading Jeremy Mynott's "new and gripping" book,...
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Leader: Into the arms of Mammon
The DIUS is no more, the latest sign of the Government's narrow focus on business interests at the academy's expense
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From where I sit - Literature in the wall's shadow
Five minutes before the scheduled start of the Palestinian Festival of Literature late last month, armed Israeli police entered the crowded Palestinian National Theatre in Jerusalem and closed it...
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Kevin Beurle, 1956-2009
Kevin Beurle, a British scientist involved in the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, has died.He was born in Swansea on 19 January 1956 and attended local schools before gaining a BSc in physics from...
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Lack of trust is a real cause for complaint
On what basis can anyone expect to build a "relationship of trust between teacher and student" if students are dismissed as "not in a position to distinguish" good education from bad, and can only...
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Revolution and reaction 1
Goethe is a tricky one on whom to build a case for reform ("Goethe's the guy v-c goes to for advice on reform", 4 June). Over a long life he moved from the revolutionary position of his "Sturm und...
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Revolution and reaction 2
Goethe as a new guide for universities? Hasn't academia always been about Faustian pacts, the relationship between sorcerers and apprentices ... and the occasional meander around a Mediterranean...
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Viable model
Steve Fuller is outraged to find that his forth-coming book, The Sociology of Intellectual Life, will be made available only in hardback and at £60 a copy ("No soft (cover) option 'outrages' author...
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A society divided
I enjoyed the excellent article on the Royal Geographical Society debate very much ("'Think big' campaign splits geographers", 4 June).The fundamental point is that the society has lost balance and...
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Guide predates campaign
We would like to clarify some points in your article "Students' campaigns take some ugly turns" (4 June). The publication A Student's Guide to Assessment was written by University of Central...