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Kevin Fong bemoans science's continuing inability to secure its future
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Learning to share
Free, immediate and permanently available research results for all - that's what the open-access campaigners want. Unsurprisingly, the subscription publishers disagree. Zo? Corbyn weighs up the...
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Book of the week: Mothers and Others
Camilla Power finds emotional modernity is the legacy of co-operative breeding
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?= Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCESDarwin Studies: A Theorist and his Theories in their ContextsBy M.J.S. Hodge, senior fellow in history and philosophy of science, University of LeedsAshgate, ?...
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Ministries split over value of funding second degrees
One government department is at loggerheads with another over cuts in funding for students studying second degrees, it emerged this week.Correspondence leaked to Times Higher Education reveals that...
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CBI queries skills plan
The director-general of the Confederation of British Industry has cast doubt on the Government's flagship policy to increase university- level skills in the workplace. Richard Lambert said businesses...
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The long march
China is hungry for Western-style universities, not least to fuel its economy. Phil Baty reports on the efforts to uproot corruption and bureaucracy and build a dynamic and vibrant world-class system
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Malaysia: full of Western promise
UK institutions seeking to consolidate their position overseas are discovering Malaysia's potential. John Gill reports from Kuala Lumpur
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Focus on basic skills training not HE, say MPs
Committee cites downturn in calling for Government to drop participation targets. Hannah Fearn reports
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILThirteen projects will share more than ?300,000 under the Science and Heritage Research Clusters Scheme. The other winners were listed last week.Award winner: A.M...
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EDUCATION- Boys and Foreign Language Learning: Real Boys Don't Do LanguagesBy Jo Carr, senior lecturer, School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education, Queensland University of Technology, and...
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A real fast-track procedure
A pilot scheme aims to take medical advances out of the lab and into practice more quickly, writes Zoe Corbyn
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Appointments
The University of Wales, Lampeter has named Medwin Hughes vice-chancellor, as part of plans to merge the institution with Trinity University College to create the University of Wales: Trinity Saint...
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Research management must walk before it runs
The profession must take small steps to build its standing, a study has found. Zo? Corbyn reports
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Tara Brabazon: 60 seconds of scholarship
One day, I intend to conduct a study of how university staff download from iTunes. Do vice-chancellors ¨C productively and efficiently ¨C swoop into the site, grab the top ten lectures from iTunes U...