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Boston College dispute moves to appeals court
A transatlantic wrangle over whether material collected in an oral history project can be used as evidence in a criminal investigation has moved to a US appeals court.
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The week in higher education
• Sociology featured heavily in most media outlets this week, although it was down to research showing that stripping skills are on the slide because of the recession. Researchers at the University...
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From where I sit - Filtering Bologna's muddy waters
When higher education ministers from 47 countries of the European continent meet in Bucharest on 26- April to pronounce on the next steps for the Bologna Process and the construction of the European...
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Odds and quads
This sample comes from the laboratory where Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) left a number of glass plates coated with bacteria overnight in 1928. It was this that led him to stumble upon the...
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Appointments
Council for Assisting Refugee AcademicsStephen WordsworthThe Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (Cara) has named the former British ambassador to Serbia as its executive director. Stephen...
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Children of the revolution
For the late Julia Swindells, radicalism and friendship were always intimately linked. Here, she describes the youthful influences that led her down a political path
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London Met links with stag-do firm
Master's course offers expert oversight from 'spa with strippers' tour operator. Jack Grove reports
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Bound for glory
Alan Ryan on the faith in education that inspired ‘Great Books’ collections
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Meet the Romans with Mary Beard
There’s more to the ancient world than dusty toff-on-toff talk, ‘professor of bloody Classics’ tells Matthew Reisz
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Wider open spaces
Freely accessed papers are simply points in a constellation of scientific communication with the public, says Alice Bell
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Why so prickly?
International students have enriched the UK and its universities immeasurably. It makes little sense for the Home Office to keep them out, argues Edward Acton
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We're only unclogging the 'brain circulation' (2 of 2)
Nicola Dandridge is correct in only one respect in her assessment of the coverage of Dutch universities in the British media. British students are not yet flocking to the Netherlands, nor are they...
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Drink least of our worries
Muslim students at London Metropolitan University and elsewhere must be groaning in despair at Malcolm Gillies' recent ill-advised comments about alcohol and Islam ("Raising the bars a 'moral' matter...
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No laughing matter
Philip Diamond is wrong to think that Michael Duff's cultural impact should allay his concerns about the impact agenda ("Winning formula", Letters, 12 April). Pathways to Impact requires researchers...