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The week in higher education - 20 November 2014
Matt Taylor from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission must have thought he’d been dropped on a comet given the column inches he commanded last week. In just days, he went from being feted as...
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Defence must not rest
With cuts looming on the horizon, the sector cannot afford to relent in pressing the case to protect the research budget
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HE in FE: truths and illusions
Degree courses at further education colleges have the potential to ‘change lives, not society’, argues scholar
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High and popular culture to meet in new postcolonial studies centre
More football, less theory, says heroin scholar at the head of new hub
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Campus close-up: Tottenham Hotspur Foundation
A London club’s Middlesex University-accredited two-year degrees promise a pitch-perfect environment to study football
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Canada and the ‘war on science’
Stephen Harper’s government is accused of ‘muzzling’ federal scientists at a time of concern over funding. Is it time for more academics to speak out?
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How to create a successful start-up incubator
Tips on shaping the right environment to encourage entrepreneurial skills and create links between universities and industry. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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The Institute of Sexology, Wellcome Collection, London
The pioneers who examined human sexual desire took personal risks to uncover the realities of sex, this exhibition shows. Fern Riddell writes
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Extreme: Why Some People Thrive at the Limits, by Emma Barrett and Paul Martin
Do tales of derring-do contain tips for surviving in the cubicle jungles? David Green finds out
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Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution’s Greatest Puzzle, by Andreas Wagner
Tiffany Taylor on an investigation of the strategies for innovation involved in evolution
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An Intelligent Tory: Henry Worms, Lord Pirbright (1840-1903), by James Grimshaw
The Anglo-Jewish MP makes for a fascinating biographical subject, writes James Stevens Curl
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Stalin: Volume 1: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, by Stephen Kotkin
A study of the Soviet leader is a brilliant portrait of a man of contradictions, says Robert Gellately
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The Congress of Vienna: Power and Politics after Napoleon, by Brian Vick
Jeremy Black on a significant study of the far-reaching effects of one diplomatic summit
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Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left, by Mark Taylor
Howard P. Segal on an examination of the accelerating pace of life whose scope extends beyond fast food and computers