Teach new generation to make degrees count
Does going to university enhance your earning power? Or are people who are likely to be big earners also likely to go to college? The truth is somewhere in between, but this week's report from the...
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Boycott the behemoth
The RAE wastes resources, stifles innovation and undermines important research, argues Denis Noble. At the height of the public row over science funding in the 1980s, Max Perutz, the man responsible...
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Equal pay is responsibility of all
HE must overhaul its archaic pay structures before it can combat pay discrimination, writes Jocelyn Prudence. Much has been made of the gender pay gap in higher education and the extent to which job...
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Why I... believe that all biology degree study should include a module in bioethics
John Bryant. Professor in the school of biological sciences University of Exeter. "You're evil," the heckler shouted. "You're evil. You are the anti-ChristI" What had I done to merit this tirade?...
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Historian fears for academic freedom in Israel
An Israeli historian who has supported the call for an academic boycott of his country believes he may be fired by the University of Haifa. Ilan Pappe said Haifa's dean of humanities had called for...
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More join RAE lynch mob
The integrity of the research assessment exercise suffered another setback this week as academics called for an inquiry into the dismal performance of pharmacology and physiology. The two disciplines...
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Taxonomy faces extinction in UK as cash dries up
The scientists who discover, describe and classify new species are facing extinction, writes Steve Farrar. According to the House of Lords science and technology select committee, systematic biology...
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Environment suffers damage
The Natural Environment Research Council has cancelled the summer round of its Standard Research Grant awards - worth £10 million - in a bid to address a £13.2 million financial shortfall, The...
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Daily news
Libraries told to turn over new leaf to survive The traditional role of British libraries as bastions of free reading and quiet study could end within 20 years unless they adapt to modern users’...
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Reader's digest of the ill-chosen few
The Oxford Companion to Music
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Drawn to the Indian subcontinent on a Hindustani air
Music of the Raj
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Catering for 10 billion
The Future of Life
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a deliberately plain work: "The purpose of this book is to help officials in their use of written...
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The more the merrier in quest for natural knowledge
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Walker's picture perfect is cut dead
Walker Evans