Lord Krebs issues warning over science funding
The government has been warned by a leading peer not to cut the science and research budget in today’s autumn statement.
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THE podcast: 5 December 2013 issue review
Download the podcastA lack of female representation among university governors, this week’s Books section, gender segregation at university events and student protest in Turkey are all discussed in...
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THE podcast: J. Noah Brown interview
Download the podcastIn this interview podcast, J. Noah Brown, president and chief executive officer of the Association of Community College Trustees, discusses the future of the community college...
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The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present, by David Runciman
A. W. Purdue on the risky belief that participatory government can always muddle through any crisis
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Lament for the dawn chorus
Bird numbers in Britain and Ireland - monitored with the aid of citizen scientists - are falling. Tim Birkhead calls for action
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Black scholars: trapped on the race track?
African American scholars still struggle for public prominence outside discussions of racial justice, says Daniel Matlin
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Governance gender gap still yawning
Audit finds lack of women on university boards affects female v-c numbers
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Anti-Crisis, by Janet Roitman
Chris Knight on an analysis of crisis as a narrative device
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News in brief - 5 December 2013
AustraliaPlea to cut bureaucracyThe main lobbying group for universities in Australia has told the federal government’s new commission into public spending that some projects brought in under Labor...
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THE Scholarly Web - 5 December 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Peter Frank, 1934-2013
A leading authority on the Soviet Union (and Yorkshire fishing communities) has died
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Campus round-up - 5 December 2013
Source: © The Estate of Patrick Caulfield, DACS 2013 / © Sir Peter Blake, DACS 2013Modern mastersThe first public exhibition of one of the UK’s most important private collections of modern art has...
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Grant winners - 5 December 2013
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Services and DeliveryResearch programmeAward winner: Martin C. GullifordInstitution: King’s College LondonValue: £349,926Cost-effectiveness of different...
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Lost in the timestream
Miriam David received her PhD from a small number of scholars within what was Queen Mary College, not the institution as a whole (“‘Miss’ no hit with revered alumna”, News, 28 November). How many who...
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Weights and measures
As someone who worked throughout his career at two small but excellent institutions (the universities of Sussex and St Andrews), I find it irritating to see grant income rankings that take no account...