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NottinghamKlaus Weber: If you leave me I'm not comingThe works of Klaus Weber, as this wide-ranging exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary (22 October until 8 January 2012) reveals, constantly call...
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'Willetts is innocent' - v-c
Our vice-chancellor has described academic suspicions about the significance of David Willetts' regular meetings with private providers of higher education as "absurdly paranoid".He agrees that "on...
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TV review: Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey
Joanna Lumley's honeyed charm wins over everyone she meets on her tour of Greece, says Gary Day
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Film review: We Need To Talk About Kevin
Will Brooker explores the unsettling juxtaposition of self and other in Lynne Ramsay's skilful adaptation
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Stewart Russell, 1955-2011
A leading pioneer in the emerging field of science, technology and innovation studies (STIS) has died.Stewart Russell was born on 6 August 1955 at Eastleigh in Hampshire and educated at Wimborne...
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Appointments
Teesside UniversityPaul CrawshawAn academic who analyses risk and uncertainty - from the earthquake in Japan to what we eat and drink - has been appointed director of Teesside University's Social...
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Odds and quads
The bronze lamp in the form of an improbable bird takes its origins from the drawings of grotesque beasts by the Dutch designer and silversmith Arent van Bolten, dating from around 1620.
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Research intelligence - Poacher who rather enjoys gamekeeping
Douglas Kell was a whizz at landing grants. Now he is the one handing them out. Paul Jump reports
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From where I sit - Strike action and inaction
Looking from outside, one might expect that Nigeria, a country of more than 150 million people and endowed with oil reserves, independent from the UK since 1960, would have an educational system that...
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Campus round-up
University of SouthamptonForeign body trainingMedical students will be able to complete a major part of their training in continental Europe as the result of a partnership between a UK university and...
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The week in higher education
• Sir Alex Ferguson has received an honorary University of Manchester doctorate to mark his 25 years as manager of Manchester United. Rod Coombs, deputy vice-chancellor, said on 13 October that...
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Tribal language
Words of division won’t put the UK together again, argues Malcolm Gillies
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20 October 2011
Meet your new research partner - Embrace the rise of the citizen scientist
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