Interview with Nicole Prause
We talk to the neuroscientist and sex researcher about prudish attitudes, personal threats and what goes on in a sex research lab
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World University Rankings 2010-2011 table information
Editor’s note A key principle of our revised rankings system in its first year is that it includes only institutions that assented to join the profiling process and that have provided and verified...
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Disability on campus: the challenges faced and change needed
Five academics talk about the issues associated with various disabilities and what should be done to improve support
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Conservative manifesto: a pledge to cut overseas student numbers?
John Morgan looks at the Tory manifesto pledge to keep students in net migration target and to hold ‘major review’ of tertiary funding
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How internationalisation crushes national character
The need to accommodate foreign students undermines domestic practices, says Lincoln Allison, spying parallels between UK universities and global sports bodies such as Fifa
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Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind, by Kevin N. Laland
Steven Rose on an eloquent explanation of the rapid mechanisms of human cognitive evolution
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Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination, by Robert Bickers
Jonathan Mirsky on a complex history of a country struggling to regain control of itself
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The 7 Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice, by Chris Chambers
Luna C. M. Centifanti on the problems surrounding research practices in psychology and how they can be corrected
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The British HE system is as far from the American as ever
While the ÌÇÐÄVlog and Research Act seeks to level the playing field between providers, an unregulated category could spook future politicians and see the law retightened, says Nick Hillman
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Thomas Pleger, 1969-2017
Archaeologist who introduced innovative tuition fee structure as university president is remembered
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Acting like spoiled children will do UK universities no favours
Vice-chancellors need to be less demanding and more collaborative and constructive if they want concessions from the government on issues such as immigration, says Lord Lucas
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Supervisors are morally obliged to publish with their PhD students
Objections to co-authorship with juniors display a misguided sense of ethics, say Mark Hayter and Roger Watson
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The Australian budget could have been worse for universities
As higher education costs rise inexorably, students or governments will inevitably have to pay more, says Peter Coaldrake
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PhD students: time to make them university employees?
Universities around the world looking closely at employment rights and research engagement of doctoral candidates