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This glass model of a dissected cuttlefish is one of about 100 remarkable representations of marine life held by the Zoology and Marine Biology Museum at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
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Research intelligence - Tiny steps to new world, but UK is stumbling
Nobel laureate excoriates the 'butchers' blocking progress in nanoscience. Paul Jump reports
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From where I sit - 'Pure' and 'impure' thought
"Welcome to the Land of the Pure," a feminist professor proclaimed with a twinkle during my recent research trip to Pakistan. Yet in the aftermath of the assassination of Salman Taseer, the governor...
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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
University of ManchesterBrief lives up NorthPeople from the North of England are significantly more likely to die before the age of 75 than those in the South. Researchers from the University of...
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The week in higher education
"Well done, Tony Blair in 2004 and well done, David Cameron today." Such sentiments may not be shared by universities whose teaching grant has been cut by 80 per cent or by students about to see...
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24 February 2011
Disapproval ratings - As the UK plots a US course, a look at the stars and gripes of America
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Leader: America's pyrrhic victory
The US has some outstanding universities, but there is a dark side to its achievements, which the UK would do well to avoid
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Appointments
University of HullAlison YarringtonAlison Yarrington has been appointed dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Hull. Professor Yarrington, an expert in sculpture, took a...
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Saturday, bloody Saturday: now it's all right for grafting
'Share' project diarists divulge how they are losing their weekends to work. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Cause and effect: metaphysical insights fire top guns' imagination
USAF learns from philosopher's understanding of unintended consequences. Matthew Reisz writes
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Heriot-Watt plans to extend long global reach
It is not the biggest university in the UK - indeed, it is not even the biggest in Edinburgh - but on the global stage, Heriot-Watt University already punches above its weight.It has unveiled plans...
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News in brief
United StatesPolitical correctness gone mad?Two universities in the US have been accused of offering preferential treatment to minority students. The Center for Equal Opportunity, a conservative...
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They're here to stay: ratings demand a change of tactics
For good or ill, the US academy is having to learn to live with student evaluation sites, finds Jon Marcus
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We've been here before
Calls to save Egyptian cultural heritage ring hollow when those making them are blind to the past, argues Christina Riggs