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Campus close-up: Brunel University
Broad-based restructure aims to encourage interdisciplinary research collaborations
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Not the standard model: the physics of pole dancing
A University of Sheffield scientist is using pole dancing to make his subject more accessible
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‘Beautiful minds’ neglected as KAUST courts global elite
Saudi princess sounds alarm over institution’s share of local students
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How Dubai’s business school bubble burst
Boom and bust could herald a depression for the global sector, warn Finnish academics
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A cocktail for violence
Campus lifestyles and easy access to guns can create the perfect storm, say Deborah D. Rogers and Howard P. Segal
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Aberystwyth’s surge into action to keep students safe from storm
Pro vice-chancellor John Grattan recalls his hastily constructed plan of action in the face of the January storms
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Coventry dean drives links with industry
Michael Fitzpatrick, who joins the Faculty of Engineering, aims to reinforce connections with manufacturing. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments
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Universities, lend a thought to funding
Ryan Shorthouse argues that institutions should play a greater role in financing undergraduate students
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Chris Marker: A Grin without a Cat, Whitechapel Gallery, London
A rare retrospective of the French filmmaker’s work reveals themes of perception and time, suggests Davina Quinlivan
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Alex Danchev, Stefan Doerr, Glyn Hambrook, Peter J. Smith and James Underwood...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Publishing and the Advancement of Science – From Selfish Genes to Galileo’s Finger, by Michael Rodgers
Jon Turney on an editor whose work with popular science writers helped to re-establish the genre
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The Proteus Paradox: How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us – And How They Don’t, by Nick Yee
Steve Redhead finds a lack of sophistication in this analysis of the online gaming community
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Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science, by Richard Yeo
William Poole on how a culture of literary commonplacing gradually gave way to one of scientific record-keeping
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The Triple Package: What Really Determines Success, by Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld
Deborah Rogers on the Tiger Mother’s new polemic