Timely tirade
At last! An angry - and how - tirade against the millionaire buffoons who lead this wretched, undemocratic government, safe and secure in the knowledge that their privileged backgrounds and private...
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Alpha and omega again
As a THE reader since its inception, may I congratulate you on its ruby anniversary ("Many happy returns", 13 October). One item sadly missing from your remembrance of things past is the publication'...
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Film review: We Need To Talk About Kevin
Will Brooker explores the unsettling juxtaposition of self and other in Lynne Ramsay's skilful adaptation
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TV review: Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey
Joanna Lumley's honeyed charm wins over everyone she meets on her tour of Greece, says Gary Day
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Stewart Russell, 1955-2011
A leading pioneer in the emerging field of science, technology and innovation studies (STIS) has died.Stewart Russell was born on 6 August 1955 at Eastleigh in Hampshire and educated at Wimborne...
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Campus round-up
University of SouthamptonForeign body trainingMedical students will be able to complete a major part of their training in continental Europe as the result of a partnership between a UK university and...
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Odds and quads
The bronze lamp in the form of an improbable bird takes its origins from the drawings of grotesque beasts by the Dutch designer and silversmith Arent van Bolten, dating from around 1620.
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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
? Sir Alex Ferguson has received an honorary University of Manchester doctorate to mark his 25 years as manager of Manchester United. Rod Coombs, deputy vice-chancellor, said on 13 October that...
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From where I sit - Strike action and inaction
Looking from outside, one might expect that Nigeria, a country of more than 150 million people and endowed with oil reserves, independent from the UK since 1960, would have an educational system that...
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Appointments
Teesside UniversityPaul CrawshawAn academic who analyses risk and uncertainty - from the earthquake in Japan to what we eat and drink - has been appointed director of Teesside University's Social...
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Leader: Citizens, to the lab and front bench
Scientists are harnessing the public's power, but they could go further: a partnership would yield academic and political results
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Research intelligence - Poacher who rather enjoys gamekeeping
Douglas Kell was a whizz at landing grants. Now he is the one handing them out. Paul Jump reports
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Tribal language
Words of division won’t put the UK together again, argues Malcolm Gillies