Gloom lifts for science
Physics and chemistry are making a comeback with a growth in student demand. Tony Tysome reports. Scientific subject heads have forecast a bright outlook for academics seeking jobs in physics and...
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Market in HE a threat
Universities worldwide are losing sight of their “social, cultural and intellectual objectives” as commercial forces turn them into simple producers of “commodities”, according to a new report,...
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Sally Hunt wins UCU election Sally Hunt has been elected the first general secretary of the University and College Union, it was announced today. Ms Hunt was the former head of the Association of...
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Shocked and awed
From the bombardment of Guernica to the overwhelming force used in Iraq, artists have struggled to convey the full extent of terror from above, says Ian Patterson. Humankind may not be able to bear...
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It's buy, buy to women. Now the girlies rule
If Wags and conspicuous consumption are the epitome of post-feminist womanhood, we've not come a long way, baby, argues Becky Munford According to self-identified "sexist" Mike Newell, the manager of...
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Parallel lives
An academic and his undergraduate son at the same university offer different perspectives on an issue. This month: customer relations The father It all started getting weird when we discovered that...
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His book of life still awaits its completion
Systematists have struggled to preserve the order of species that Linnaeus created, but the rate at which our natural knowledge grows and threats to biodiversity make their task ever more difficult....
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Academic ‘hounded over immigration claim’ An Oxford University professor at the centre of a debate on academic freedom said last night that he was being hounded because he had dared to challenge the...
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Latest research news
Researchers pour cold water on belief in morning coffee 'caffeine buzz Regular coffee drinkers who believe their morning cup gives them a much-needed boost might like to think again. A conference...
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Pupils 'copy Ucas forms off internet' Thousands of sixth-formers are plagiarising material from the internet to complete their university application forms, it was revealed today. The Universities...
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Wikipedia hit by identity crisis as student admits posing as professor Wikipedia is facing one of its biggest crises after a twentysomething student from Kentucky posed as a professor of religious...
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Study finds inconsistent handling of university complaints A new study into how university complaints are handled has revealed that the quality of procedures varies widely across the sector while 54...
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A life spent in worship of la liberte
Alexis de Tocqueville
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They remember, but others forget
Historians
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A pioneering cutter with a conscience
Digging up the Dead