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United StatesSenators' list of shamFour US senators have united to call for a crackdown on "sham universities", which they say are helping foreign nationals to gain illegal entry to the country. The...
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Hungarian philosophers suffer state 'harassment'
International outcry as left-leaning scholars are 'targeted' by government. Matthew Reisz reports
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Hello, Yellow Brick Road
Clive Bloom ponders the enduring popularity and cultural significance of L. Frank Baum's wonderful world of Oz
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Diary
SheffieldGuy Ben-Ner: SpiesSince the early 1990s, Israeli artist Guy Ben-Ner has filmed a series of videos starring himself and his family: domestic dramas taking place within the intimacy of their...
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Brand on the run
Our Head of Brand Development, Norman Bovril, has responded forcefully to the news that the Times Higher Education Reputation Rankings place Poppleton as the 8,914th highest-regarded university in...
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Jack Forbes, 1934-2011
Jack Forbes, a pioneer of Native American studies, was not afraid to take "unpopular and risky" decisions, and helped to found the first Native American college in California.Professor Forbes was...
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TV review: Wonders of the Universe
'Why are we here? Where do we come from?' Brian Cox has the answers, says Gary Day
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Film review: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Woody Allen's latest satire has worthwhile things to say of the US. Pity it's set in Britain, says Duncan Wu
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Odds and quads: Otto and Marie Neurath Isotype Collection
These charts, pictures and illustrations (see images, right) all form part of the Otto and Marie Neurath Isotype Collection at the University of Reading.
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The rest was silence
Inept alumni communications derail the desire to give, says Tim Birkhead
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Research intelligence - Empty buckets or pure gold?
Open-access advocates ponder weak repository growth as publishers restate dire warnings. Paul Jump reports
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The Pick - Shakespeare's Globe
From first base to learning space
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From where I sit - After the quake: we shall carry on
When the earthquake hits I am dozing with a pile of academic journals on my lap.It's spring vacation here in Japan and with university entrance examinations completed I've got a month to catch up on...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
Surrey/EssexMore Zzzs for ABC1sUnemployed people are 40 per cent more likely to report difficulty sleeping than those in work, according to findings from the world's largest longitudinal household...