Draw the lines
Surely people should be given lines for sniffing cocaine, not smoking cannabis ("'Let's give every schoolboy lines for smoking cannabis'", News, 31 May)? I should stress that I am drawing on...
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Accidentally on purpose
Your otherwise excellent leader ("The best that money can't buy", 31 May) would have been better still had the word "unintended" been omitted from "has had the unintended consequence of driving grade...
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No sex please, we're Essex
I was briefly worried at what our position (?) at the bottom (?) of the "University Sex League" might do to student recruitment, but a colleague pointed out how pleased parents will be (The week in...
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Appointments
University of BathConrad EarnestA professor of health and exercise has swapped the bayou for Bath. Conrad Earnest, who joined the University of Bath in April from the Pennington Biomedical Research...
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Campus round-up
London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineSeasonal shift in malaria warGiving young children medicine once a month during the rainy season could prevent tens of thousands of malaria deaths....
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We Face Forward: Art from West Africa Today
Street life, dazzling dress, social commentary and a riot of sensuous colour interweave in a rich assembly of West African art, writes Charles Gore
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From Where I Sit - You get what you pay for
Quebec's student protests have garnered global media attention, and it's about time - the student strike began almost four months ago and the related civil disobedience has paralysed the province's...
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THE Scholarly Web
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The week in higher education
• Universities often argue that schools play a larger part in deciding the future of youngsters from poorer backgrounds, but a new book says the academy could be to blame for creating a social super-...
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Workshop of the world
The Bauhaus’ principles still have much to teach us, argues Sally Feldman
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Making other plans
Universities benefit from the large pool of cheap labour provided by PhD students and postdocs, but there aren’t enough academic jobs to go around, so young scholars should prepare for the...
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Nuclear Forces: The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe
Graham Farmelo is pleased to see the spotlight turn to the ‘supreme problem-solver of the 20th century’
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14 June 2012
Reset the compass - Next-generation scholars must look elsewhere if sector offers exploitation, not employment
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Leader: Too many snakes, too few ladders
Academic career prospects for PhD holders are dismal, so why are those who seek external employment viewed as failures?