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Research fundingDon't 'micromanage', says NurseFunders should avoid "micromanaging" research and requiring applicants to set out the impact of their proposals, according to the president of the Royal...
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Do you feel lucky? Google Books is at heart a catalogue of errors
Scholar highlights flawed metadata in the world's largest digital library. Matthew Reisz writes
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An impoverished relation
The 'core-and-margin' policy will cost colleges dear - another unforeseen result of coalition plans, says Philip Davies
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Offa's strikes against bursaries not work of fair-access champion
Wes Streeting argues that a truly independent watchdog would back upfront cash for low-income students, not 'fee waivers' for the state
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Control. Halt. Delete
Soul-crushing email causes stress and slows work. Oliver Double proposes some ways to cut the burden. Email-free Friday, anyone?
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Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives
A reductive approach to social behaviour is bad news for democracy, James Garvey writes
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American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox
The tale of modern psychiatry's founder dominates this story of changing diagnoses, David Healy finds
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Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India
In the course of my research on 19th-century politics of prostitution, I was shocked to learn in detail about the miserable lives of prostitutes who served the soldiers of the British Army in India....
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The Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making
The Poet's Freedom is an ambitious book that ranges widely through Western philosophy and literature, making liberal mention of Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Kant, Coleridge, Marx and Hegel, and quoting...
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In the Basement of the Ivory Tower: Confessions of an Accidental Academic
A pessimist's insights point to the future woes of the market-driven academy, Professor Y finds
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The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
Renaissance writers knew the seductive power of swerving. John Milton, in The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649), sensed the English people baulking at the killing of the king: "Another sort......
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Dickens and London
Charles Dickens' London, full of strangeness, suffering and laughter, is ever closer to today's metropolis, John Bowen argues
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Diary
BBC Radio 4Blue Notes, Cold NightsA generation of African-American musicians escaped racism at home to build new lives, and create new music, in Scandinavia. In Blue Notes, Cold Nights, country blues...
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The Pick - You Can't Take It With You
You Can't Take It With YouRoyal Exchange, ManchesterUntil 14 January 2012The extended Sycamore clan are the ultimate lovably eccentric family. Grandpa Vanderhof, the head of the household, gave up a...
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Best at nothing - again
For the seventh year in a row, our university failed to win a single award of any kind at the Times Higher Education Awards in London's luxurious Grosvenor House Hotel.Despite entering in a record...