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MergersScience bodies join forcesThe Institute of Biology and the Biosciences Federation have united to form the Society of Biology after members voted overwhelmingly in favour of the move. It is...
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Nurturing critical minds
Lecturers must do more than lecture, argues Mary Malcolm: they must develop students' intellectual-inquiry skills
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Individual and national success demands one path to higher skills
To meet future challenges, we need a single knowledge infrastructure incorporating higher and further education, says Lord Mandelson
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Daytime TV: Putting on the Ritz
Gary Day admires Joan Collins' chutzpah as she encourages three generations of women to glam up
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Global winners!
"The Poppletonians are coming!" That was the exultant reaction of our vice-chancellor to the news that our university had leapt seven places in the 2009 World University Rankings."We've still some...
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Appendix A: I'm knackered
Lecturing when fatigued is an inescapable fact of life for Kevin Fong
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: The value of past masters
Historians separate fact from fiction, keeping politicians honest and clearing the way for better thinking
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From where I sit: An exercise in mass courtship
When you're engaged in teaching classes or immersed in research, you tend to forget that higher education is big business. That attitude is much harder to sustain when you are standing on the floor...
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Dennis Marsden, 1933-2009
A leading sociologist - who analysed everything from class mobility in education to intimacy and infidelity - has died.Dennis Marsden was born in Huddersfield on 25 June 1933, the son of a Methodist...
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Oxford Brookes University - Skills for work
An apprenticeship scheme has been set up by Oxford Brookes University that will give six young people experience in horticulture, catering, decorating and administration. The apprentices will also...
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The European Union and World Politics: Consensus and Division
Nearly 40 years ago, Ralf Dahrendorf, who was then the European Commissioner for external relations, commented on a current round of negotiations with a developing country: "We're talking about...
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Crime and Muslim Britain: Culture and the Politics of Criminology among British Pakistanis
A fresh approach to a 'taboo' subject raises more questions than answers, says David Gadd
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingEDUCATION- Higher Education in Asia/Pacific: Quality and the Public GoodEdited by Terance W. Bigalke, director of education, East-West Centre in Honolulu, and Deane E. Neubauer...
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Behind the Scenes at Boston Ballet
Text and images capture a company facing a hostile environment, writes Anne Hogan