Linguistic elements of natural selection
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Around the globe in glottal stops
The World Atlas of Language Structures
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Out of their depth, out of control
University Students Behaving Badly
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Regrets? They've had a few
The Scots and the Union
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We're all guilty of criminal intent
Crime in an Insecure World
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SEELLD Support Research Fellowships
Deadline: 16/03/2007
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Daiwa Foundation Awards
Deadline: 31/03/2007
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Small Pilot Grants
Deadline: 01/03/2007
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Who is 2007 campus idol?
Ontario lecturers are fighting it out on TV to be top of the student charts, writes Philip Fine A television channel has passed up the charms of a usual pretty face, the star researcher, and has set...
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A special relationship that's worth fighting for
If collegiality is to survive, academic staff should strive to work with, not against, administrators, writes Linda Newman An academic friend and I were discussing how to respond to the latest hare-...
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Alison Wolf
These days, most British comment on American higher education paints it as the isles of the blessed: the best universities, the best laboratories and libraries, the best paid professors, with needs-...
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Stephen Gomez: Scroll to 'E' for education
It does not take a Nostradamus to predict the growing use of e-learning. For a number of years I have been using electronic portfolios to remotely track student learning on work placement; though it...
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Honours go for a song
Warwick University made the acclaimed British composer Michael Nyman sing for his supper before awarding him an honorary degree last week. Mr Nyman had composed a fanfare especially for the...
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Ministers know no modesty
It seems Bill Rammell, the Higher Education Minister, is less attuned to his academic constituency than he is widely held to be. The House of Commons Education and Skills Select Committee made him...