Key change at RNCM
The Royal Northern College of Music has appointed Jonty Stockdale as its next principal. Professor Stockdale, head of the School of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, will...
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Correction
In our article "EU institute starts to take shape" (Times Higher August 3), we quoted David Livesey, secretary-general of the League of European Research Universities, as saying that the European...
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Curiosity's priceless, argue trailblazers
If it can takes decades to recognise the value of a breakthrough, Melanie Newman asks how research councils will ensure that basic science survives along with work that is focused on more immediate...
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Scholar slates 'dodgy' criteria
A leading Cambridge scholar has published a stinging attack on the "audit society", which he says is destroying originality and honesty in research. Writing in the latest edition of Current Biology...
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'Best and brightest' postdocs rewarded
Twenty newly qualified biomedical scientists have each received £250,000 awards from the Wellcome Trust in a new scheme to help postdoctoral students start their research careers, writes Louise...
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Unwanted manliness
Women see "masculine" men as unsuitable long-term partners, new research suggests. Psychologists from Durham and St Andrews universities found that men with feminine facial features are seen as more...
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Journal puzzle solved
A diary said to rival that of Samuel Pepys is being published for the first time. An international team of academics, led by Mark Goldie at Cambridge University, has spent seven years working on...
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Caught red-handed
The diet and sex of a suspected criminal could be discovered from a fingerprint, thanks to new research. A team at Imperial College London, led by Sergei Kazarian, a professor of physical chemistry,...
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'Lefties' gene found
An international group of scientists has discovered a gene that increases an individual's chances of being left-handed. The study, led by a team from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at...
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Star whose eye was drawn to the dark side by a punk rant
Donald Bloxham Professor of History, Edinburgh University 'The Rising Star award is setting you up for a fall. The laws of physics determine that what rises... It's a pretty petty world, the academic...
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Fancy a degree without all the hassle of study?
Then try Serbia, where for €6,000 you can get a qualification and never sit an exam. Thomas Land reports on the culture of academic corruption that is scandalising the former Soviet bloc, and the...
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World encompassed
INDIAN PM CRITICISES STATE OF ACADEME Most of India's universities are "below average", according to the nation's prime minister, Manmohan Singh. Speaking at Mumbai University, Mr Singh called for an...
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New science generation needs the spark of life
Universities, Government and schools must unite to get more young people into science, say Michael Arthur and Deian Hopkin Science, as the Prime Minister has often claimed, is key to the UK's...
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Gary Day
As people watched their furniture floating down the street in the heaviest July rains since records began, the Cabinet addressed itself to the housing crisis. "Where can we build cheap, affordable...
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You don't have to be neurotic, but it helps
Academics' tendency to worry can be a strength as well as a weakness, argues Daniel Nettle I recall one Christmas Day afternoon, when most people were probably snoozing off their lunches, becoming...