World University Rankings 2011-12 methodology
Phil Baty describes the methodological refinements that have made the 2011-12 rankings even more accurate and comprehensive No project that seeks to reduce the amazing variety of university activity...
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Too Big to Know
Martin De Saulles sees how new ways to share online can lead to quicker knowledge creation
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Thinking the Twentieth Century: Intellectuals and Politics in the Twentieth Century
This book has an unusual structure. It grew from conversations recorded by Tony Judt (1948-2010) with a younger historian, Timothy Snyder, of Yale University. Although they present their specialisms...
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Sex, Gender and the Conservative Party: From Iron Lady to Kitten Heels
The altered gender balance among Conservative MPs after the 2010 general election was noticeable. Yet, despite a well-publicised pledge by David Cameron to increase the number of female and ethnic-...
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
An exposition on successful economies impresses Howard Davies, but may not thrill the REF panels
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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
California in the 1970s: LSD, seances...quantum mechanics? Chris Sachrajda takes a strange trip
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Bush's Wars
While the Obama administration struggles to disentangle itself from Iraq and Afghanistan, nearly a decade after George W. Bush's absurd "mission accomplished" boast of May 2003, it is useful to have...
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Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics
As witness recent squawks on Fox News about the "communist" leanings of the latest Muppets movie, the idea of Hollywood as a hotbed of leftist subversion dies hard. Steven Ross aims to set the record...
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Simulacra and simulation to make dreaming spires reality
Inside a Hackney sixth form, a mini Oxford gives pupils an appetite and an aspiration for higher study. Joseph Lee writes
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China continues pouring cash into basic science
The Chinese government's budget for basic research is set to increase by more than a quarter this year.
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News in brief
United StatesHappiness is a concealed gunStudents and staff at a US university will be allowed to carry guns on to campus thanks to a Supreme Court ruling. The decision concerning the University of...
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Grant winners
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsBasic sciences• Award winner: Tim Rakow• Institution: University of Essex• Value: £124,184Broadening the applications for experience-based choice• Award winner...
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Cetls' impact assessed: the sector hardly felt a thing
Hefce-backed teaching programme failed to raise standards significantly. Jack Grove writes
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Russell Group 'a more natural fit'
Quartet abandon 1994 Group for new home among elite body. John Morgan reports
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Communication crisis as head and demand fall
The London College of Communication has suffered a 28 per cent drop in undergraduate applications for 2012-13 - greater than almost every university in England.