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Science select committeeTory member cedes his seatA member of the Commons Science and Technology Committee is to stand down just months after being selected. Alok Sharma, Conservative MP for Reading...
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Student activists set sights on v-cs
Left-wing groups plan to greet UUK meeting with pickets and walkouts. John Morgan reports
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'F' for 'effort'
Harriet Jones, Kay Yeoman and Helen James offer their insights into the dos and don'ts of feedback terminology
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Quit the quotas: only competitive tension will keep fees down
Market discipline must be introduced to ensure that universities deliver the best deal for students and taxpayers, argues Tim Leunig
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Diary
GlasgowJohn Cage - Every Day is a Good DayThe US composer John Cage (1912-92) was most famous or notorious for 4' 33" - in which a "performer" sits at a piano for 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence...
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The Pick - Sexual Nature
Credit: Green Porno/SundanceSexual NatureNatural History Museum, LondonUntil 2 OctoberSex has been around for about a billion years - plenty of time for it to get complicated. Male bedbugs stab their...
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Not my children!
"Thanks, but no thanks." That was the shock response from Mrs Lillian Daunting, a spokesperson for our university cleaning staff, to the proposal from the Unite union that the children of cleaners...
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Urania's lessons for Clio
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the humanities' need for scientific insights
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Research Intelligence - Why blue skies is still vital
The MRC's head knows it must deliver impact, but he tells Paul Jump that he's equally aware of the need to help the best ideas germinate
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The Week in Higher Education
The life of the climate scientist has not been an easy one as the debate with global warming sceptics has grown ugly over the past year or two. Now, one climate scientist has gone on the attack,...
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Leader: Count the collateral damage
We must not let the high-stakes political game being played by ministers and v-cs overshadow the human toll change can exact
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From where I sit - Why the mighty are falling
In the mid-1980s, when I was a university student, the stereotype of Chinese universities was that they were ivory towers. And in the 1990s, there was a popular saying about the widespread corruption...
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Arts review: Greenland
A climate-change play at the National fails to either inform or entertain Graham Farmelo despite the cast’s commitment
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Charles R. O'Melia, 1934-2010
Charles R. O'Melia, an expert on water treatment, was known among his peers as someone who retained a humble demeanour despite being a leading scholar in his field.The professor emeritus in the...
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Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey
Prospectus promises don’t always match reality, so how can young people get what they need to make an informed choice? As the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey reveals what...