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Campus round-up
Imperial College LondonBugs check in but don't check outA centre for the study of some of the world's most life-threatening bacterial infections has been launched. The Medical Research Council Centre...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
? Congratulations to Princess Eugenie, who has been awarded a 2:1 from Newcastle University. The Queen's granddaughter, who described her time in the North East as a "fantastic experience", read a...
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From Where I Sit - Recommended reading
I was asked last week to suggest a "higher education book" that the prime minister of a Central Asian nation could read on his vacation. He wanted something that would deepen his understanding of...
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Odds and quads
These works all form part of the New Hall Art Collection, one of the most significant assemblages of women's art in Europe. It is housed in what is now Murray Edwards College, one of the University...
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Appointments
Bucks New UniversityTheo GavrielidesBucks New University has appointed Theo Gavrielides visiting professor in youth policy at its School of Social Sciences, Primary Care and Education and made him a...
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Flying down to Rio fuels new North-South romance
Canada seeks long-term relationship with growing higher education superpower. Jon Marcus reports
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Keep it real
Unlike our major competitors, the UK has avoided a major research misconduct scandal over the past decade, but unless the government and the academy shake off their complacency, we won’t be ready...
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Leader: Box ticked, but job not yet done
The UK's new research integrity concordat is an insufficient bulwark against the high risk of a future storm over misconduct
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Metamorphosis: Titian 2012
Raphael Lyne on the shape-shifting fascination to be found in the meeting of Greek myth, Roman and modern British verse and Titian’s indelible hues
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Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
Tristan Bekinschtein takes a trip with the Che Guevara of cognitive neuroscience
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Commons revolt
A community can run wisely and well without market values, Alan Ryan says
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12 July 2012
Make no bones - Is the UK running headlong towards a major research misconduct scandal?
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Utopias: A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities, by Howard P. Segal
Utopianism is in a bad way. Stalin’s Soviet Union, Hitler’s Germany and Pol Pot’s Kampuchea are regularly disinterred as terrifying examples of humanity’s attempts to actualise ideal societies, with...