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Why do ministers ignore a flood of expertise?
Phil Ashworth on how to get scientific experts inside the political machine
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Greater London: the capital as city state
Malcolm Gillies on why the metropolis could (and perhaps should) go it alone
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Review: Only Lovers Left Alive
The vampire as cultured aesthete is the beatless heart of Jim Jarmuschās peculiarly reassuring film, says Lucy Bolton
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David Eastwood, Graham Farmelo, Matthew Feldman, Helen Taylor and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Suzanne Scotchmer, 1950-2014
A theoretical economist whose pioneering analyses of āclubsā, patents, incentives and innovation provided important insights to lawyers and policymakers has died
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Leader - Support for teams of rivals
Could working in a āteam of rivalsā encourage academic creativity - and turn out better equipped graduates, too?
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Not marking?
Experts foresee tough reaction from universities to UCUās āultimate sanctionā. Jack Grove reports
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Bring in the banks: vice-chancellor breaks cover on student finance
Rama Thirunamachandran moots idea of a loan system āunderpinned by the private sectorā
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Who's smarter...
Paper says social scientists are less intelligent than physicists and their ilk. PaulĀ Jump writes
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Hepi director owns up to policy āmistakeā
Hepi directorās mea culpa comes as he considers āproblems in the status quoā. John Morgan writes
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Gove guarded on cost of A-level revision
But estimate puts cost of Russell Group-led redesign at Ā£10 million a year. Jack Grove reports
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UK university partners end ties to LSBF
Private college loses all its previous degree-validating partners
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Efficiencies review to celebrate best practice
Universities UK study is ānot agenda for cutsā but a chance to salute best practice. Holly Else writes
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Women in STEM waiting for structural change
Dame Athene Donald brands MPsā report on women in science āweakā