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ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL AND THE NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHAnglo-Dutch network initiatives in the humanitiesJoint applications for up to €40,000 (£33,000) each have...
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Master the new loom before life's tapestry unravels at our hands
We must ethically control synthetic biology or its box of delights could easily become a Pandora-style nightmare, warns Julian Savulescu
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Past is prologue
Critics, take note: the archives teach us that the academy's 'golden age' had plenty of commonalities with today, Nick Hillman says
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Goodbye to dropouts
"This is a real breakthrough!"That was the relatively ecstatic response of Nancy Harbinger, our Deputy Head of Student Experience, to the news that the Big Four audit firm Deloitte has developed a...
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London Met links with stag-do firm
Master's course offers expert oversight from 'spa with strippers' tour operator. Jack Grove reports
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Richard Descoings, 1958-2012
Richard Descoings, who was the director of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, has been described by colleagues as "a tremendously charismatic figure" and has been praised by Nicolas Sarkozy,...
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We're only unclogging the 'brain circulation' (2 of 2)
Nicola Dandridge is correct in only one respect in her assessment of the coverage of Dutch universities in the British media. British students are not yet flocking to the Netherlands, nor are they...
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Drink least of our worries
Muslim students at London Metropolitan University and elsewhere must be groaning in despair at Malcolm Gillies' recent ill-advised comments about alcohol and Islam ("Raising the bars a 'moral' matter...
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No laughing matter
Philip Diamond is wrong to think that Michael Duff's cultural impact should allay his concerns about the impact agenda ("Winning formula", Letters, 12 April). Pathways to Impact requires researchers...
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Multiple feedback
Regarding your news story "QAA's new riff on student feedback: positive notes or waves of jargon?" (12 April): although criticisms are understandable, it is good to see that the Quality Assurance...
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Breaking totem's taboos
In his review of The Freud Files: An Inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis (29 March), John Forrester berates the fact that we did not write a cultural history of psychoanalysis and its...
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Grit and pearls of wisdom
Your focus on the value of failure is to be welcomed ("Get back in the saddle", 29 March). It may well be salutary to stress that all need not always have prizes. It is surely also true that...
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Rune with a view
The "pictured engravings" in "Norse code" (12 April) are not runes, but the only figural ornaments accompanying the 33 12th-century Norse runic inscriptions in Maeshowe (which is a chambered cairn,...
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Boston College dispute moves to appeals court
A transatlantic wrangle over whether material collected in an oral history project can be used as evidence in a criminal investigation has moved to a US appeals court.
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Appointments
Council for Assisting Refugee AcademicsStephen WordsworthThe Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (Cara) has named the former British ambassador to Serbia as its executive director. Stephen...