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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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The war within
James T. Crouse finds himself in emotional conflict at Gettysburg, experiencing sadness at the loss suffered by the South, but relief that the outcome was the beginning of an end to slavery
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Structural adjustments
As the blueprint for the RAE's replacement is fine-tuned, evolution rather than revolution looks set to be the hallmark of the research excellence framework. Zoe Corbyn reports on a work in progress
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Setting sails for the future
Knowledge Transfer Partnership honours sector's innovators and collaborators. John Gill reports
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Queen's Birthday Honours 2009
Knights BachelorProfessor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran. Professor and head of obstetrics and gynaecology and president, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. For services to medicine. (London...
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Special deliveries get smaller
A nanotechnology challenge aims to take healthcare to a new level with targeted therapy, says Zoe Corbyn
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It's all about them
The universities that do well in Times Higher Education's Student Experience poll put students first, but as Rebecca Attwood learns, there is more than one way to do that
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Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk
Fiona Reid dissects an analysis that aims to move patent policy beyond faith and towards evidence
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Who's in, who's out?
DURHAM Ray Hudson has been appointed "regional champion" at Durham University. Professor Hudson is an economic geographer who has held a range of senior management positions during his 34-year career...
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Do you want to be in my gang?
Some say mission groups help air vital issues collegially, but others think they selfishly expose the sector to divide-and-rule tactics. Melanie Newman looks at the group dynamics
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The Red Queen Among Organizations: How Competitiveness Evolves
It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place," says the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, a fitting metaphor for this book about organisational competition,...
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Innovation Policy and Competitiveness (Extract from Council press release on the Competitiveness Council of 25 September)
Brussels, 25 Sep 2006 On the basis of a Presidency questionnaire ( 12585/06 ), the Council held a public exchange of views on innovation and competitiveness following a presentation by Commission...
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Appointments
Anne Neville of the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds has been awarded a ten-year research chair in emerging technologies - the first of its kind to be given by the Royal...
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Brother, can you spare the time?
Many now-defunct public clocks once helped shape shared spaces. Tara Brabazon is delighted that a (digital) website is working to restore function and value to a neglected (analogue) public feature