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Research malpractice'Inadequate role model'A prominent researcher who spends 20 per cent of her time at the University of Manchester has been reprimanded by the German Research Foundation (the DFG)...
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United StatesBrainless brain treatmentA US university hospital has been criticised by federal regulators over severe deficiencies in the patient care offered to those undergoing experimental surgery...
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The week in higher education
• Theresa May's speech on immigration and the student visa system contained so much nuance and balance that some people might be confused about where she stands. So a Home Office press release...
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Men seek men for dominant positions: headhunters' 'baleful influence' on equality
Male-dominated headhunting firms paid to identify potential university leaders are hampering efforts to recruit more female vice-chancellors.
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Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem
At last, a book exploring the impact of literature on the non-academic reader, writes Chris Jones
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Gender, Inequality, and Wages
Francine Blau was one of the first academic economists to focus her research on the relative position of women in the labour market, and she is clearly among the best. This book is the ninth in the...
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Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World
In the history of science writ large, the scientific revolution has deeper roots than we once thought. Although it would have been difficult to imagine even two generations ago, scholarly consensus...
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The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
A.W. Purdue on the ramifications of the demise of Western civil society’s foundational structures
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The Things We Do and Why We Do Them
Why did the chicken cross the road? Why did you choose to have coffee this morning rather than tea? Before we can even attempt to provide an answer to these and similar questions, Constantine Sandis...
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What Art Is Like, in Constant Reference to the Alice Books
I wanted to love this book. I ought, perhaps, to have loved this book…but I didn’t. Despite the assurances on the dust jacket that Miguel Tamen’s study is “wonderful”, not to mention “highly original...
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Nor the battle to the dumb
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on Notre Dame’s healthy minds in healthy bodies
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20 December 2012
Front lines - Fact and fiction intertwined in tales of war, peace and Christmas truces
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THE podcast: 20 December 2012 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanEditor John Gill and reporters David Matthews and Jack Grove join Chris Parr on the latest THE podcast to discuss some of the highlights from this week’s Times Higher...
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Life of Pi
The once ‘unfilmable’ story of a boy and a tiger stranded together on a lifeboat contains flashes of 3D genius but ultimately proves too tame for Will Brooker
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Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution
Biancamaria Fontana admires the courage of two women who dared to enter scientific circles