Is it getting hot in here?
Here is proof that a general knowledge entrance examination for all prospective university students is sorely needed. A colleague of mine at another institution has just marked a first-year essay...
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Augusto Gansser, 1910-2012
According to science journalist Simone Ulmer, Augusto Gansser was "one of the last true adventurers who made his passion his profession".The geologist, researcher, teacher and explorer studied at the...
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My fellow Americans, college is not a priority
Presidential hopefuls' attitudes to sector range from indifference to hostility. Jon Marcus reports
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Appointments
University of Western OntarioMichael MildeThe newly appointed dean of the University of Western Ontario's Faculty of Arts and Humanities believes that people should not be discouraged from studying...
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Campus round-up
Birmingham City UniversityHipsters can, and should, dig itThe relationship between urban areas and the countryside must be reconfigured, according to researchers at Birmingham City University. An...
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Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude
Discussion of the merits of paired works used to be a sociable pastime. Has the fashion for chronological museology narrowed our experience, asks Sheila McTighe
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Research intelligence - Euro funding star in the ascendant
ERC leader Helga Nowotny talks to Paul Jump about concentration, competition and the future
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Laissez-faire attitude to Sarkozy's reforms as election looms
Economic crisis leaves French politicians tight-lipped on universities budget. Clea Caulcutt writes
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Leader: They never came to the boil
The dearth of funds to invest in teaching today makes the Cetls' meagre legacy all the more disappointing
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From Where I sit - Threat to national security
Throughout the history of the US, the nation has drawn strength from its large, established middle class - families who owned homes, saved for retirement and lived in relative security. They could...
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What are you reading?
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The week in higher education
• Racism is usually blamed on complex factors such as socio-economic background, peer group influence and political propaganda, but one academic study has suggested that rock music also has a case to...
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Women and children first
For decades the science of child-rearing was guided by patriarchal ideas, but now the cradle rocks to an older rhythm. Eric Michael Johnson, in conversation with eminent evolutionary biologists Sarah...
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15 March 2012
The nature of nurture - How the past shows the way to a healthy human future
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