TV review: Wonderland: The Trouble with Love and Sex
Gary Day is touched by an animated exploration of Relate's work with troubled or warring couples
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Film review: Win Win
A high-calibre cast overcome a contrived storyline about a fresh start in middle age, says Duncan Wu
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Peter Young, 1923-2011
Very tall, with a shock of white hair, Peter Young was a "cheerful, humorous and knowledgeable" engineering professor who also enjoyed choral singing.Born in Boston, Lincolnshire on 23 November 1923...
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Appointments
St Mary's University CollegeJanine Griffiths-BakerA legal scholar who has "always had a sense of justice" has been named the new deputy principal at St Mary's University College, Twickenham. Janine...
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Odds and quads
The linear écraseur chain - developed in Paris in 1850 for amputating limbs and tumours, and for castration - works by the gradual tightening of the chain loop, crushing tissue without causing...
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Refute it thus
Citation indices are poor and distorting proxies for research quality - they should get the boot, argues Thomas Docherty
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Research intelligence - Rocks and a hard place
AHRC head feels heat of defending funding plans to the academy, reports Paul Jump
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From where I sit - Money is the least of their worries
Saudi Arabia has big plans for higher education. The kingdom is trying to build an academic system that recognises excellence at all levels, from research universities to vocational institutions....
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
University of ManchesterShared remediesTwo pharmaceutical companies have teamed up with a university for collaborative research into inflammatory diseases. The University of Manchester,...
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The week in higher education
Fabian ideals of social improvement, lots of overseas students and possibly the first sub-£9,000 tuition fee in the Russell Group: the London School of Economics has always been a place of innovation...
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For-profits, student losses
Alan Ryan on an American battle that deserves the UK’s attention
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19 May 2011
Love over money - Will happiness and well-being become the economists’ measures of choice?
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Leader: Since when is debate a bad thing?
David Willetts is getting flak for voicing controversial policy ideas. But universities could suffer too if debate is stifled
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