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Action Medical ResearchResearch Project GrantsAward winner: Peter TaylorInstitution: University College LondonValue: 拢114,845Bacterial meningitis in newborn babies: harnessing the body鈥檚 natural...
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Campus round-up
Creature comfortsAn animal-obsessed artist will step into character as 鈥淢rs Panda Head鈥 when she gives a live performance at a university show for aspiring artists. Mary Beth Quigley has created a...
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News in brief
AustraliaMedia students try to keep it realAn Australian university launched an investigation after it emerged that students had been assigned to plant fake stories in a rival institution鈥檚 student...
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American Umpire by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman鈥檚 wholly engaging analysis of US history characterises the American republic鈥檚 role as that of an umpire in an evolving world order. This role involves not only a...
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Expect the unexpected
Kerstin Hoge probes a view of the mind that takes aim at Chomsky and evolutionary psychology
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Making Scientists: Six Principles for Effective College Teaching by Gregory Light and Marina Micari
As the authors recount in this useful book, the Gateway Science Workshops (GSWs) run by their institution, Northwestern University in the US, target first-year undergraduates with the aim of...
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Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust: The Jimmy Savile Scandal by Frank Furedi
Frank Furedi sets out to do two things in this book. First, he analyses the media circus that ensued after the 2012 airing of a BBC Newsnight report on allegations of sexual abuses committed by the...
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Revengers鈥 tragedy
Judith Rowbotham weighs up thought-provoking arguments for a retributive system of justice
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GI foe
Brutality is at the root of military life, even among America鈥檚 Greatest Generation, finds Fiona Reid
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Historical perspective
Today鈥檚 students are impoverished by a scant knowledge of culture and context, but the story of art should be a sine qua non of any well-rounded curriculum, argues Brian聽Sewell
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German retreat from fees territory
German states are scrapping tuition fees after less than 10 years. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports
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South Australia鈥檚 mass effects
South Australia strategy to be decided via mass brainstorming session. Paul Jump writes
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Sally Feldman - Student satire is dead
Where have all the student satirists gone? wonders Sally Feldman
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Adrian Furnham on peer review鈥檚 swings and roundabouts
Adrian Furnham has had his share of peer review nightmares, but the frailties of the system have also worked in his favour
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Istv谩n Aranyosi calls for university hiring policies that are purely business, not personal
Decisions based on gossip, caprice and favouritism make the scholarly job market unmeritocratic, Istv谩n Aranyosi argues