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THE Scholarly Web
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4 October 2012
World University Rankings 2012-13
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Research intelligence - Shock troops check 'poor' GM study
Science Media Centre's rapid rollout of experts' views sway most media. Paul Jump reports
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Frankenweenie
Animated films aren’t just for children, argues James Clarke. They’re lyrical metaphors for the richness of human existence
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So many aspirant doctors, so little time
EUA report uncovers global commonalities in PhD education. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Massive black mirror
Alan Ryan on the dystopian and utopian aspects of MOOCs
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The week in higher education
• Students arriving for their first day at A.C. Grayling's New College of the Humanities had to brave a mob of protesters, The Independent reported on 25 September. About 30 demonstrators gathered...
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Odds and quads
These robots form part of the ALIZ-E project designed "to move human-robot interaction from the range of minutes to the range of days".
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Cézanne: A Life, by Alex Danchev
For most of the past century, Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) has been revered as one of the great modern artists, the painter whose landscapes, nudes and portraits galvanised a generation including Henri...
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Between Two Stools: Scatology and its Representation in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift, by Peter J. Smith
David Palumbo pooh-poohs any suggestion that ‘shiterature’ has no place in academic study
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Get paid to ask for money
Educational fundraising is a young profession that needs to be better defined to attract candidates, says Shirley Pearce
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THE World University Rankings 2012-13
Losses for UK and US as Eastern excellence drives start to bear fruit. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Mahmood 'not ideological' on private providers
Labour's shadow higher education minister has said she is open to "a diversity of provision and providers" in the sector.
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Achievement report is here to stay, says chief architect
Academics will be encouraged to do more to advise their students on what extra-curricular activities will improve their employability, as part of a new system of measuring achievement at university.