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LondonNever the Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts)Since the 1960s, the Camden Arts Centre has been one of the cutting-edge spaces for contemporary art in London. This new exhibition,...
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Great brain breakthrough
In what is being described as "a major research development", our very own Professor of Brain Studies, Professor E.C. Grunwald, has found evidence which "goes some way" to confirming the commonly...
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Leader: A time for giving and for healing
Fees reform has divided the academy, but the sector can agree on something: it deserves support, including donations
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This is customer services
Tim Birkhead fears for the effect that higher fees will have on teaching
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Research intelligence - Rip it up and start again
Journal articles are an outdated way of sharing scientific research, says open-access advocate. Paul Jump reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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From where I sit - When it's who, not what, you know
When professors Rao Yi and Shi Yigong claimed in a recent issue of Science that cronyism was blighting China's research culture, a spokesman for the Ministry of Science and Technology was quick to...
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Tour of beauty
Artist Rooms enlightens places other exhibitions do not reach. Alex Danchev lauds Anthony d'Offay's efforts to bring art to all
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Diana Leonard, 1941-2010
A leading feminist activist, sociologist and educator has died.Diana Leonard was born in Trinidad on 13 December 1941 but moved to England after the Second World War, where she was educated at...
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There are alternatives to higher tuition fees (1 of 2)
The hike in tuition fees up to a ceiling of £9,000 has rightly been challenged by young people, union leaders, academics, the heads of secondary schools and colleges, parents and a miscellany of...
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There are alternatives to higher tuition fees (2 of 2)
There is a definite smell of Vichy about Universities UK today. What on earth has possessed the majority of vice-chancellors to become Marshal Petain impersonators? We need an assurance from Steve...
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Economic (basket) case (1 of 2)
Since the 1997 Dearing report, successive UK governments have framed their policy for the academy on a set of economic assumptions that do not make sense, even on the principle that those who benefit...
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Economic (basket) case (2 of 2)
Raoul Franklin showed the form we used to appreciate at the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals and Universities UK ("The hidden dangers of higher tuition fees", Letters, 9 December). The...
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Strategic fallacy
David Eastwood denies that the Browne Review panel was biased towards science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects and yet artlessly concedes that the proposals were designed to...
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Beyond the boundaries
In an article complaining about the research excellence framework impact pilots in English language and literature, Peter Barry attempts to belittle each of the five case studies that have been...