Send in the Clones: A Cultural Study of the Tribute Band
Les Gofton reminds us that in popular music as in life, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
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Raising the Stakes: E-sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming
Raising the Stakes reports on a cultural phenomenon that few of us are familiar with. While computer games have become part of our mainstream culture, the professional e-sport arena is a place for...
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Charles Dickens and "Boz": The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author
The story of Charles Dickens' development as a storyteller - from his first anonymous unpaid sketch in December 1833 to the publication of Barnaby Rudge in 1841 - is told extremely well in this fine...
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News in brief
United StatesThoroughly revised - really?A US governor has signed legislation intended to lower the costs of textbooks for university students. Jerry Brown, governor of California, announced last...
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European signatories signal start of a new ERA
The European Commission's efforts to create a single market for research across Europe by 2014, a deadline set last year by European Union ministers, have entered a new phase.
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Olympian or legal champion...but why can't I be both?
Flexible university policy allowed hockey star to train and study. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Bedfordshire takes its medicine over appeals
A university's appeals process for PhD students has been criticised as inconsistent, unclear and unfair by the Quality Assurance Agency.
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Don't rob poor to educate rich
Berkeley chancellor labels free higher education for all a 'social injustice'. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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News in brief
Exam howlersWinner was out to lunchThe winner of this year's ÌÇÐÄVlog "exam howlers" competition is Kevin Ruane, professor of modern history at Canterbury Christ Church University....
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Fifteen out, 16 in, but no place for 'redundant' chair
Professor unfairly dismissed in restructure that increased the number of posts. Jack Grove reports
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'Insecure' test for foreign students' English defended
The University of Manchester has admitted assessing the English skills of some international students with a language test deemed unsuitable for admissions, mainly in order to allow poorer students...
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UCL to host pupils in museums and labs
University College London's museums and laboratories will host more than 300 secondary school pupils from this September, after delays to the building of their UCL-sponsored academy left them without...
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Grant winners
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILResponsive Mode Grant AwardsValues are amounts requested; funds awarded may differ.• Award winner: David Goulson• Institution: University of...
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High-maintenance model
Pay-to-publish will work for top-flight Big Science: for everything else it will be a disaster, says Salvatore Babones
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We must maintain our two-pronged assault on social immobility
Sir Martin Harris, Offa's outgoing director, argues that widening participation and fair access remain key to the sector's progress