6 December 2012
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Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Jon Turney salutes an exhaustive study of the rise and (relative) fall of a brilliant, bewildering mind
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Seven Psychopaths
Duncan Wu is amused by a frenzied bagatelle full of violence, political incorrectness and comic fury, signifying…itself, mostly
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Research intelligence - Matchmaking creates good vibrations
KTPs bring together businesses and universities for their mutual benefit
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Roy Penny, 1931-2012
A researcher and engineer who made important contributions to making nuclear power safer has died.
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
Goldsmiths, University of LondonWall of remembranceA mural inspired by a London house fire that killed 13 young black people has been unveiled. Artists from Northern Ireland with a record of...
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UCL 'heart and soul' at risk in statute fight
A second stab at reforming path to dismissal draws UCU counter-attack. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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Women demand seat at the tables
Manifesto calls for university rankings to take gender gap into account. David Matthews writes
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The lecturers who don't teach (but still count)
UCU study suggests flaws in student-to-staff ratios may mask true class sizes. Jack Grove reports
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THE podcast: Liam Burns
Podcast Powered By PodbeanLiam Burns, president of the National Union of Students, speaks to us on this week’s THE podcast about the Pound in Your Pocket report, which looks at student financial...
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Osborne announces £600 million for 'science infrastructure'
The chancellor has used his Autumn Statement to announce £600 million in extra investment for science infrastructure to support "technologies of the future".
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Inside Higher Ed: 'Becoming right'
By Colleen Flaherty, for Inside Higher Ed
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Student suicides rise along with debt burdens
The number of students taking their own lives rose by 50 per cent in four years, figures have shown.
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Engineering graduate numbers 'need to double' by 2020
The UK needs to double the annual number of graduates in engineering by 2020 if it is to meet the expected demand for such skills, the government was told today.