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Nobel prize winners join calls to open research to all More than 12,000 academics including two Nobel laureates have signed a petition urging the European commission to make publicly funded academic...
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Report rebukes lecturers' union over pay dispute Leaders of the Association of University Teachers unexpectedly settled last year's bitter lecturers' pay dispute in a desperate bid to be seen as the...
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Jobs unfilled because graduates 'lack basic leadership skills' Almost half of employers failed to fill vacancies last year because many university graduates lack basic communication and leadership...
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US business schools top world rankings American business schools continue to dominate the top of the table for global MBA programmes. For the third year running the University of Pennsylvania's...
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Profits of being top of the table
Ranking Business Schools
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Driven by the desire to be disliked
The Life of Kingsley Amis
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Whydunnit case is closed but a real mystery remains
Agatha Christie
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A word from the wise to the not-so-wise
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought
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An odd personality who never fails to split opinion
Utility and Democracy
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a fictional work that draws on the author's childhood in Poland: "Take a man with a nice face and sad...
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An immoral structure that rent a land and its people
The Berlin Wall
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The devil within us will kill a charismatic denizen
Tasmanian Devil
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From raffishness to respectability
A Mad, Bad and Dangerous People? England 1783-1846
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Alarm at rating website
Universities seek legal counsel over student advice site that presents 'skewed' data. Claire Sanders writes Named university departments have been described as "rubbish" and "shocking", with students...
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Closure of common room leads to isolation
Academics are suffering from "chronic levels of isolation" as collegiality is eroded by rising workloads and a shortage of good-quality staff common rooms, researchers have warned. The standard of...