Metamorphosis: Unmasking the Mystery of How Life Transforms
Jon Turney is unconvinced by a theory about how caterpillars grow wings and other transformations
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The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910-37
A diverse collection of artworks from the Weimar period focused on sex and death make an astonishing show, Peter Hill says
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The Pick - The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons
Credit: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionThe First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah SiddonsNational Portrait Gallery, London, until 8 January 2012Because Covent Garden was famous for...
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Diary
NottinghamKlaus Weber: If you leave me I'm not comingThe works of Klaus Weber, as this wide-ranging exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary (22 October until 8 January 2012) reveals, constantly call...
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'Willetts is innocent' - v-c
Our vice-chancellor has described academic suspicions about the significance of David Willetts' regular meetings with private providers of higher education as "absurdly paranoid".He agrees that "on...
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Leader: Citizens, to the lab and front bench
Scientists are harnessing the public's power, but they could go further: a partnership would yield academic and political results
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Research intelligence - Poacher who rather enjoys gamekeeping
Douglas Kell was a whizz at landing grants. Now he is the one handing them out. Paul Jump reports
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The week in higher education
• Sir Alex Ferguson has received an honorary University of Manchester doctorate to mark his 25 years as manager of Manchester United. Rod Coombs, deputy vice-chancellor, said on 13 October that...
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From where I sit - Strike action and inaction
Looking from outside, one might expect that Nigeria, a country of more than 150 million people and endowed with oil reserves, independent from the UK since 1960, would have an educational system that...
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Appointments
Teesside UniversityPaul CrawshawAn academic who analyses risk and uncertainty - from the earthquake in Japan to what we eat and drink - has been appointed director of Teesside University's Social...
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Tribal language
Words of division won’t put the UK together again, argues Malcolm Gillies
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Powered by the people
Independent 'citizen scientists' have always existed, says Darrel Ince, and our networked age of fast computing and open access is helping them to flourish - to the greater good of research
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Ionic, isn't it?
Academics from physicists to experts on Scandinavian culture are crafting stand-up comedy routines based on their work. But this is no joke. Matthew Reisz finds that a crowd's laughter is not the...
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Serfs up, bring down quasi-feudal practices (1 of 2)
What an extraordinary, scarcely believable world we live in when a "senior academic" feels the need to remain anonymous when blowing the whistle on vice-chancellors' increasingly bizarre behaviour...
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Serfs up, bring down quasi-feudal practices (2 of 2)
I read "The madness of kings" on long-serving vice-chancellors becoming power crazed with great interest. Our v-c, Tim Wheeler, is one of the UK's longest-serving university leaders, but I do not...