Debased currency
The article on "post-autistic economics" in Germany ("Appliance of the dismal science", 29 March) describes the use of the term "autistic" in this context as "controversial", but it is worse than...
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糖心Vlog singles out two recent developments as being significant for the future of "sciart": Cern's artists-in-residence programme and the MA in art and science at Central Saint...
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Genius envy
In her piece about the way in which academics allow their creativity to be controlled by unimaginative "bean counters" ("Creative vs accounting", 22 March), Amanda Goodall wonders how this hijack...
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Spirit level of the age
Congratulations to Sally Feldman for her spirited defence of media studies from the "vituperative attacks" of a "self-loathing" media ("Painful reflection", 22 March).Her argument is especially valid...
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Take with a pinch of salt
Your report that researchers at the University of Aberdeen have discovered how electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) actually works to relieve severe psychological depression is to be welcomed ("Shock...
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All intents and purposes
Robert Barton has the strange blindness to brute facts that afflicts other neuro-reductionists ("Evolutionary battleground", Letters, 29 March). As Steven Rose points out, there is more to a human...
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Chris Wilkinson, 1940-2012
One of the most highly cited engineers in Scotland, Chris Wilkinson was an internationally recognised figure in the field of nanotechnology and on first-name terms with leading figures in research...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
Brunel UniversityKhan-do attitudeA university business school is running an Easter "boot camp" to attract sixth-formers predicted to get at least AAB at A level. The three-day residential event at...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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A little less égalité, a little more income, please
With public finances stretched, the French think the unthinkable on fees. Clea Caulcutt reports
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The week in higher education
? The 1994 Group was dealt a blow last month when four member universities - Durham, Exeter, York and Queen Mary, University of London - announced that they were ditching the network of "small but...
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From Where I Sit - Classified information
Higher education in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) is undergoing a period of rapid change and growth, which began well before the so-called Arab Spring. Student enrolment across the region...
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Odds and quads
These formidable Victorian women all appear in a photograph album which forms part of the archives of the Association of Head Mistresses (AHM), now held in the Modern Records Centre at the University...
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Appointments
Courtauld Institute of ArtTom NicksonA specialist in medieval architecture is to return to an institution he studied at in a teaching capacity. Tom Nickson, who is currently lecturer in the...