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GOLD SPONSOR: THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMYThe Higher Education AcademyThe Higher Education Academy’s role is to be a nationwide focus for enhancing teaching, learning and students’ experiences in...
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A vote for anarchy
The political philosopher Jacques Rancière would like to encourage the disruption of the normal order that is real democracy. Julian Baggini hears his campaign If you rage against the growth of...
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Dr Dai Llemmer
A reader writes: I was recently buttonholed in the rest rooms of the Athenaeum by a woman in dark glasses who said she was being interviewed for a named chair in biochemistry at a "discount-for-cash...
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Cross-fertilise and watch ideas bloom
Interdisciplinary working is on the rise, nowhere more than in health-related fields. Stephen Phillips meets a cancer research team, while Angela Shaw (below) shows the pitfalls awaiting new courses...
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There’s nothing original in a case of purloined letters
Plagiarism may seem a modern malaise, but accusations of ‘borrowing’ and outright theft of words and works were a scourge of 19th-century literary culture. Robert Macfarlane surveys opinion on...
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Conference index
Conferences, Issue no. 4 Published in The Times Higher on March 23 2007 Leader 'While e-conferencing may be environmentally friendly, virtual interaction is no substitute for the real thing'...
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Today's news
University is accused of censoring antisemitic Islam lecture The University of Leeds was accused of infringing free speech last night when it cancelled a lecture on “Islamic antisemitism” by a German...
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Exploratory Workshop Fund
Deadline: 27/04/2007
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Latest research news
Research jobs cut 'to meet the cost of government failure' Scientists claim that about 1,000 research jobs will be lost this year because the Government is cutting science funding to compensate for...
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Today's news
Computer curfew for students after spate of campus suicides For more than a decade the seven elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have been churning out world-class computer whiz kids for the...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an autobiographical work: "In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. In the month of...
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An odd pair with a passion for all things pure
James Joseph Sylvester - Arthur Cayley
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A few notes on teasing worms
Darwin Loves You