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Opinion: Under the radar
As the REF consultation winds up, Donald Braben looks back at previous attempts to exploit research. The results were mixed, because future performance in science and technology is virtually...
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The insecure scholar: Hope, anger and paralysis
The burden of trying to generate enthusiasm and work is suffocating me
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London Met’s financial future hangs in the balance
Outcome of board meeting will determine whether Hefce offers the beleaguered institution more funds. Melanie Newman reports
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The Brit stuff
The BNSC calls for UK investment in manned space exploration as the Government announces the centre’s replacement. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Reframe the ‘toxic’ language of fees, v-c urges
UUK debate hears that moving the emphasis away from debt would end ‘sleepless nights’ about costs. Melanie Newman reports
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Academy denounces £600 million funding cut
Sector faces ‘incredibly difficult’ struggle to maintain standards in wake of move, leaders warn. John Morgan reports
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Beyond debate?
The Copenhagen summit is in full force, and so too is the idea that man-made global warming is incontrovertible. But Martin Cohen argues that the consensus is less a triumph of science and...
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Finns, they are a-changin'
Tertiary education in Finland is highly regarded worldwide, but Ed Dutton fears next year's legislative changes may not be an improvement
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Spaces of selfhood
John D. Brewer reflects on the experiences that led him into sociology and drove his research interests over the following four decades
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Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age
Taking up the thorny issue of transnational feminist advocacy in the context of universal human rights protection, with all its visible failures, Niamh Reilly presents it as a case study in this well...
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The Canon: Unmasking Medicine. By Ian Kennedy
Unmasking Medicine was published in 1981 following Ian Kennedy's Reith lectures. Its ideas were intended for, and reached, a wide audience. His central premise was that medicine had been...
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No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale
Andrew Briggs finds much to praise in an enlightening introduction to nanoscience
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'Tinkers': Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller
In the age of The X Factor, it is difficult to assess someone else's work without slipping into the Simon Cowell syndrome. For a literary critic, it feels as though reading for review has become a...
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Book of the week: The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future
Electronification won't kill off books entirely, discovers Andreas Hess