On freedom and science
Terence Kealey thinks he has solved the problem of academic freedom (Books, 29 May). It is, he confidently tells us, the freedom to hold views that result from the application of the "academic method...
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Vaulting ambition
City academies have helped raise the sights of some young people in higher education cold spots, but there remains fierce ideological and practical opposition from many academics. Hannah Fearn...
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Off the couch, back on its feet
Psychoanalysis may have little place in university psychology departments, but it is flourishing within the arts and humanities. Matthew Reisz reports on the debates - and divisions - between...
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It's all pants
As with husbands, so with students. Lower the bar, as benchmarks do, and mediocre results are guaranteed, says Tara Brabazon
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12 June 2008
Higher powered - Can universities raise standards of education in city academies?
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High IQ turns academics into atheists
Intelligence is a predictor of religious scepticism, a professor has argued. Rebecca Attwood reports
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The extension to paternity leave in practice
One of the main aims of the Work and Families Act 2006 was to encourage both parents to assume childcare responsibilities in the first year of a child’s life. As part of this aim, the Government...
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Brother, can you spare the time?
Many now-defunct public clocks once helped shape shared spaces. Tara Brabazon is delighted that a (digital) website is working to restore function and value to a neglected (analogue) public feature
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Vivid imaginations redeem low marks
Universities are increasingly having to deal with fanciful excuses from students hoping to avoid poor grades, report Rebecca Attwood and Chloe Stothart
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Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk
Fiona Reid dissects an analysis that aims to move patent policy beyond faith and towards evidence
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Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity
Jonathan Freedman's outstanding previous book revealed how American Jews entered the cultural mainstream in the 1950s and 1960s and, in so doing, began to transform what had previously marginalised...
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Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends: Stories in Letters
Ezra Pound's fascination with Chinese literature, history and culture spanned pretty much his whole poetic career. Even before late 1913 when he received - in the papers of the late Ernest Fenollosa...
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The Book of the Week: Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe
Benjamin Ziemann on Nazi lust for Lebensraum
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The Week in Books
Last Witnesses: The Muggletonian History, 1652-1979 by William Lamont, emeritus professor of history, University of Sussex. Ashgate, £55.00, ISBN 9780754655329"I don't think that verticality can...