Virgin birth for sharks
Female sharks can reproduce without having sex, an international team of scientists has found. The team, including researchers from Queen's University Belfast, found evidence that sharks can...
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Correction
Tim Luckhurst, professor for journalism and the news industry, Kent University, was former duty editor of the Today programme, not its deputy editor, as reported last week.
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I'm engineering change in girls' aspirations
For many people the archetypal image of an inventor probably lies somewhere between the wild-eyed Doc Brown in the film Back to the Future and the pipe-smoking Trevor Baylis, inventor of the...
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Here, it is an honour to work for nothing
Jason Mitchell reports from Argentina on the plight of 'ad honorem' academics forced into working for free. Next time you feel underpaid, spare a thought for the 32,000 Argentine academics who work...
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World encompassed
American labs attack anti-terror audit US higher education institutions will have to undertake a "burdensome" audit of chemicals in their laboratories under proposed anti-terrorism measures, the body...
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Science's future is an interversity challenge
A truly global scientific world will have a unified research effort focused in a single institution, says Peter Atkins. Universities have always been central to the furtherance of fundamental science...
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Alison Wolf
Did you know that 70 per cent of the workforce of 2020 has already finished compulsory schooling and is, for the most part, already employed? If not, you have been failing to pay attention. For at...
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Rhapsody in reds, whites and crus
Cultivate an appreciation and you'll find that wine can challenge your mind, says Barry Smith. Recent empirical research has confirmed the long-standing view of Bordeaux University that drinking red...
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Blogger aims a very low blow
Aubrey Blumsohn, the campaigner for scientific integrity and prolific blogger who famously parted company with Sheffield University after raising too many public concerns about a drug study he was...
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Unaccustomed as you are...
Help is at hand for academics with a phobia of public speaking and a pathological mistrust of the media. West Media, a consultancy run out of Westminster University's school of media, arts and design...
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A capital suggestion for UCU
Forget pay, bullying and casualisation. One of the hottest topics at the inaugural conference of the University and College Union looks set to be a debate about where the union's headquarters should...
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Spellcheck, anyone?
The students union at the University of Central Lancashire is offering users "advice of plagerism" [sic]. At least they cannot be accused of copying their advice from a source that has been checked...
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Invisible hand has to be led by us all
Capitalism, which invents needs for the wealthy but ignores the needy, will consume itself if left unchecked, warns Benjamin Barber. Capitalism is in crisis. Too successful in meeting the core needs...
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How the RAE is smothering 'big idea' books
Tomorrow's Richard Dawkinses are being stifled by the stampede to publish in journals, says Richard Baggaley Scholarship cannot be measured by numbers. And yet the replacement for the research...
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Tick yes to raise the standard
Standardised marking will be no fairer than what we have now and will lead to a grading system that discounts individuals' achievements, Frank Furedi argues As most experienced academics in the...