United pitch in acut-throat world
Scottish universities are banding together to try to beat hot competition for research cash. John Laver explains. A consortium of the 13 Scottish universities, with Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh...
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Nursery dogma
Get them young. Of 48 different panels to locate next to the nursery during the opening session of the APSA conference in San Francisco, the programme committee thoughtfully opted for one on gender...
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Novel lines of attack
A nine-line letter was co-authored by academics from two institutions (THES, August 30). Are letters now counting towards the Research Assessment Exercise? Geoff Heaford Media relations manager...
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Spare theory
The forthcoming special issue of American Political Quarterly will describe six different election forecasting models. Pity it has turned down the model proffered by one Harvard academic who bases...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a writer whose metropolitan novel has a rural sound: "In a way, too, you were a terrible little creature. If we were out together, on a blanket in the park -...
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A study in waffle and daub
Green Shift
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Ebony and ivory
Composition in Black and White
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Failure on the road to success
Twyford Down
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Genial companion in need of a Machiavelli
A History of Western Political Thought
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Giggles for the gaggle
Tickle the Public
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In the realm of the senses
Holding up a Mirror
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Of letters, learning and louts
A Literary History of Cambridge
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Out of Stalin's shadow
The First New Left
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Runes minus magic
Runes and Runic Inscriptions
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The holy city of Washington DC
Dimensions of the Sacred