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By the blog: academics tread carefully
UK scholars are slowly but surely heading into the blogosphere. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Pack science off to revive wellspring of creativity
Asia is determined to keep its bright sparks at home while Britain struggles to develop native scientists. Linda Nordling reports that some think this presents a golden opportunity for the UK to leap...
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Ethical questions for the embedded
Jeremy Keenan on why researchers who align themselves with the military will face criticism
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Rebels, Mavericks and Heretics in Biology
How to be a happy heretic? As everybody knows, many of the rewards in science go to those who perform so-called normal science, yet such yeomen are largely replaceable. We need the paradigm shifters...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Leeds
1. Human Resource Management: A Contemporary Approach by Tim Claydon and Julie Beardwell Pearson Education, £44.99 ISBN 978037076392. Working with Vulnerable Adults by Bridget Penhale and Jonathan...
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Book of the Week: Earthrise - How Man First Saw the Earth
Jon Turney explores the irresistible images of our world from space
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The week in books
Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox, reader in ancient history, University of Oxford. Allen Lane, £25.00, ISBN 9780713999808"(Lane Fox's) arguments...
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Published this week
ART AND DESIGN- Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800-1940By Dianne Sachko Macleod, professor of art history, University of California....
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From where I sit - Quality tested by growing pains
The quality of a university is best measured by the kind of student it turns out rather than the kind it takes in. How, though, do you improve quality in the midst of accelerating expansion? The...
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Pork-pie man tipped for top QAA job
A flurry of excitement ran round our campus last week as the news emerged that Mr Ken Stribling, the CEO of Poppleton Pork Products, was in line for appointment as the new Chair of the QAA.Mr...
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Obama's promise is global
A black president would mean most abroad, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Leader: Premium brand at risk
Perceptions that the UK is 'aloof' from the Bologna Process are grossly unfair - but they could prove damaging
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John Barron, 1934-2008
John Barron, a Classics scholar who played a key role in the reform of British higher education, has died.He was born in Morley, West Yorkshire, on April 1934, the son of a mathematics teacher, and...
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Oxford won't take second best to hit targets, says Patten
The chancellor of the University of Oxford entered the debate on university admissions this week, saying that it was "as offensive" to suggest that Oxford was biased against independent schools as to...