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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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12 July 2012
Make no bones - Is the UK running headlong towards a major research misconduct scandal?
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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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Discourse and discourtesy
Conferences should be occasions for sharing and engagement, but Charles Husband too often sees only selfish and impolite behaviour
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Jack Pridham, 1929-2012
A leading plant biochemist who delighted in scientific outreach - and practical jokes - has died.Jack Pridham was born on May 1929 and educated at Thornbury Grammar School in Gloucestershire, where...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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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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Research intelligence - The prodigal returns to open arms
Impact makes Australian comeback after successful UK tour. Paul Jump reports
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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...