Serfs up
When I was personally exposed to zero hours contracts two years ago, my reaction was 鈥淚聽thought serfdom had been abolished鈥 (鈥淚t鈥檚 casual, and that鈥檚 a problem鈥, Leader, 13聽March). Such contracts may...
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Small Business Charter Awards honour SME partnerships
Association of Business Schools will recognise institutions鈥 support for small firms and local economy
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History for tomorrow鈥檚 world
Ice cores from 11,700 years ago aid the climate change debate, but the recent past has its own share of lessons, says Howard P. Segal
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Synthetic Aesthetics: Investigating Synthetic Biology鈥檚 Designs on Nature, by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Jane Calvert, Pablo Schyfter, Alistair Elfick and Drew Endy
Jon Turney on the possibilities, real and imagined, of engineering the building blocks of life
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The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us From Other Animals, by Thomas Suddendorf
Eric Michael Johnson is gripped by an evaluation of what it is to be human and our place in nature
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First Light: A History of Creation Myths from Gilgamesh to the God Particle, by G. R. Evans
Perceptive questions abound in this Western-oriented discussion, says Ursula King
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The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities, by Amanullah De Sondy
Julia Droeber praises an interrogation of the image of the Muslim man
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Try harder: Obama鈥檚 report cards do not convince
Proposal for scorecard system for US institutions 鈥榙oomed to failure鈥
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鈥榃eak鈥 handling of disputed study risks trust in science
Researcher warns of 鈥榙eveloping credibility crisis鈥 in reflection on retracted paper
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Black scholars still experience racism on campus
Black academics claim they are viewed as 鈥榦utsiders鈥 and hindered in career advancement
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Cost of new fee regime may soon exceed the old
Hitting RAB charge 鈥榯hreshold鈥 will make 拢9,000 system more costly than old
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Sidestepping diagnosis
In her response to my challenge to the scientific validity of a dyslexia diagnosis (鈥淭ime to rethink dyslexia?鈥, Opinion, 6聽March), Kate聽Saunders reframes the issue in terms of the needs of disabled...
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Growing appetite for university-industry collaborations
REF and 鈥榠mpact agenda鈥 makes sector look at collaborations with extra interest, scholars say
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Marketing spend up, but applications fail to follow suit
Post-92s鈥 student marketing spend rises as sector observers question its value
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'Self-censorship' in discussion of multiculturalism, says London's deputy mayor
Munira Mirza lauds universities鈥 role in improving all levels of education in the capital but decries 鈥榗oercive consensus鈥