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Blood is not the only social bond
The House in Southeast Asia
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The dreaming spires cast their shadow
The Ceremonial Animal
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Images of the edge of survival
Tribal Asia
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Fury over PhD for child-sex research
A row has erupted over Glasgow University's decision to award a doctorate for a thesis that describes "positive" experiences of sex between children and adults based on interviews with paedophiles...
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'I feel goldsmiths is a place I really have something to contribute to'
Geoffrey Crossick is off to Goldsmiths, having had an exciting time overseeing the changes at the AHRB Geoffrey Crossick, chief executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Board, is to replace the...
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On the move...
* The Association of Business Schools has appointed Arthur Francis , professor and dean of Bradford University's School of Management, its chair. * Mike King , former professor in the department of...
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Fur flies over MRC merger
Anna Fazackerley reports on threats to resign and accusations of 'coercion' by MRC chief Members of the Medical Research Council's governing body have threatened to resign if MPs attack plans to...
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The NHSU undergoes some radical surgery
The National Health Service University, a 2001 Labour manifesto commitment designed to improve health service skills, was scrapped this week ending months of uncertainty for academics in its partner...
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Clarke seeks plan to safeguard subjects
Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, this week asked funding council chiefs to devise a plan to safeguard "nationally important" subjects, but ruled out government intervention to save...
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Next week
NEIL KINNOCK, MARY WARNOCK AND RICHARD LAMBERT WRITE
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It's that end-of-year poll
"Politicians insisting against all evidence that there has been no dumbing down of education at any level and whining academics claiming standards have disintegrated utterly" - Susan Bassnett, Times...
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Grant makes an impact
The poorest university entrants in 2004 received up to 31 per cent more financial aid in real terms than their counterparts ten years ago, according to figures released by the Office for National...
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Iraqi sets up bursaries
A thousand students are being offered £1,000 each to study at some of the country's leading research universities thanks to a donation from a former Iraqi refugee. Naim Dangoor, an Iraqi Jewish...
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Alarm at bid to revive boycott
A row has broken out over moves to revive the academic boycott of Israel with a major international conference this weekend at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies. Pro-Israel...