Tête-à-tête with the bird brains
Matthew Reisz on the neurologists probing the social side of clever corvids and teenage dreamers
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Odds and quads
This handbill alerted Londoners to a rare opportunity to see "two kaamas's" - probably tapirs - "at the sign of the Coach and Horses" in Charing Cross, London.
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Broad courses give 'dying' subjects new lease of life
Aberdeen students buck trend and grab chance to study foreign languages. Hannah Fearn writes
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From beer to austerity, familiar scenes of panic on the streets
Founding fathers of 'moral panic' thesis discuss its modern manifestations. Matthew Reisz writes
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The liberal art of nation-building
A liberal arts education will help to strengthen the state of Israel, according to a think tank that plans to open Israel's first liberal arts college.
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23 December 2010
Back in vogue - Is liberal arts study the ideal education for the 21st century?
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Post-results no easy path to better access
It was good to see Mary Curnock Cook, the head of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, reviving interest in a post-qualification application (PQA) system for university places ("Ucas...
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Use before summer 2011
Sally Feldman mentions the demise of the Lifelong Learning Networks ("Fuel for enlightenment", 9 December), which have been generously funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England for...
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Treacherous conditions
Betrayal has been the order of the month. The first group betrayed, the students, shouted about the Liberal Democrats' broken promise on tuition fees, but failed to observe that its own leadership...
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Acceptable bonus culture
There is an alternative to destroying undergraduate teaching in the arts and humanities and hiking tuition fees by 300 per cent. If Vince Cable is serious about getting tough with the banks, he...
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Tutorial lessons
I would like to correct the inaccurate assertion in the letter "Theory first, teaching later" (9 December) that Teach First features minimal university involvement.The Teach First initial teacher...
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Wrong coordinates
David Barton is wrong to say that I "attempt to belittle" the five published case studies from the research excellence framework impact pilots in English language and literature ("Beyond the...
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DIY end to journal tyranny
In my brand of "hardish" science, peer review still works tolerably well, in the sense that a good referee can improve a paper. However, the only effect of the reviewing is merely to maintain a...
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Sutton Trust: keep Offa independent and boost its powers
The university access watchdog must remain an independent body and should be given “real teeth”, according to an influential education charity.
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Scottish teaching grant is decimated
Scottish universities will have their teaching grant cut by about 10 per cent next year, following a decision to reduce funding while maintaining student numbers.