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Goldsmiths/Edinburgh/HertfordshireProphet margin vanishesAn experiment that supposedly proved the existence of psychic powers has been challenged by a group of British psychologists. Academics at...
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Children's Lives
Hugh Cunningham ponders our enduring nostalgia for childhoods past and asks if we still yearn for a Romantic ideal
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Research Intelligence - The biggest and the best, for everyone
Pan-European network allows access to national cutting-edge biology facilities. Paul Jump reports
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Get back in the saddle
In the academy all must have prizes, but nothing breeds success like failure. Steven Schwartz argues that students gain more from blind alleys than from victory processions, as failure engenders the...
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From Where I Sit - Appliance of the dismal science
Anyone who has studied or taught economics is aware of the highly theoretical nature of the subject. For some, this is its appeal. Indeed, my old professor in the discipline once told me that the...
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The week in higher education
• Well done to the University of Manchester for clinching this year's University Challenge title. It is the third time a Manchester team has won the television quiz show in seven years, noted Rebecca...
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29 March 2012
Crash course - If failure is not an option, students will never succeed
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Government demands that separate work and values discredit us
To be ethical, a funding system must recognise that what universities do supports the common good, argues Thomas Docherty
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Sorbonne année
Howard Davies on league tables and rebranding exercises
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Leader: Set straight by a painful setback
Sometimes an unpleasant knock can be useful in forcing people to rethink the most appropriate way ahead
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Odds and quads
This 19th-century stuffed cyclopic piglet and plaster cast of a rattlesnake - brought to Scotland by Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1904 - are among the strange and sometimes shocking natural...
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Do the maths: Cetls' contributions add up (1 of 3)
We wish to take issue with Paul Ramsden's argument concerning the Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning ("A poor policy poorly managed leaves little to show for £315 million", 15 March). We...
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Do the maths: Cetls' contributions add up (2 of 3)
While a full account of the legacy of the Cetls is not possible in a brief letter, one important example is the large number of higher education staff who, through engagement with the centres, have...