Scientific method acting, when all the lab's a stage
Oxford scholar offers full-length analysis of staged ‘two-culture’ entanglement. Matthew Reisz writes
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The price of quality and innovation is failure
David Matthews reports from the World Innovation Summit for Education in Doha and hears Tony Blair’s former adviser argue for university ‘turnover’
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22 November 2012
Don’t let the scholars grind you down - Karel Reisz’s son reflects on academic interpretations of his director father’s work
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Cyberspaces free from the constraints of theocracy
Event hears how online learning offers ‘alternative public realm’ for Iranians. Matthew Reisz reports
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The Last Walk: Reflections on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives
Erika Cudworth considers the ethical dilemmas posed by the decline and death of a beloved ‘pet’
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Lawrence of Arabia
The 50th anniversary re-release of Lawrence of Arabia allows us to reassess cinema’s sensual relationship with the desert, Davina Quinlivan writes
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White knight defence
The CDBU’s set-up is too narrow, too limiting: to fulfil its aims it must reach out and diversify, argues Alice Bell
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Smiley's people
Christopher Bigsby on cases not of single spies but battalions
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No boom, no bust for rentier model
Supportive voices petition Cambridge authority over massive property deal. John Morgan reports
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US student imports and exports hit record levels
The number of overseas students attending university in the US reached a record 764,495 during the 2011-12 academic year, according to figures from the Institute of International Education.The data,...
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Canberra's watchdog: teething pains or too many teeth?
Australia swapped its higher education quality agency for a body with more powers and a much bigger appetite for detail. A year later, the sector is still eyeing Teqsa warily, reports Paul Jump
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Victor Anderson, 1922-2012
A research oceanographer who made a major contribution to the development of sonar has died.Victor Anderson was born on 31 March 1922 to missionary parents in Shanghai, where his father was principal...
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Campus round-up
Royal Holloway, University of LondonSuffer the migrant childrenA film charting the plight of a young Afghan refugee deported from the UK has been submitted as evidence to a parliamentary human rights...
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Largely peaceful NUS protest ends in ugly scenes
A National Union of Students protest against tuition fees and youth unemployment ended in ugly scenes today when a splinter group forced the union's president from the stage during the closing rally.