Leave them a beaver (no Lama)
When in China, don't mention Tibet but do wash well, firm's code advises. David Matthews reports
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Community of scholars: lifelong learning needs lifetime readers' tickets
Offering library access to alumni and independent researchers helps to keep a university at the heart of its community, says Susan Gibbons
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Through the eyes of others
Can life-writing gain fresh insights when biographers cross the gender divide? Matthew Reisz hears academic authors' views
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The Pick - Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture, 1915-1935
Credit: Rusakov Workers' Club/Richard PareBuilding the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture, 1915-1935Royal Academy of Arts, London 29 October to 22 January 2012The paintings of Liubov Popova -...
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Diary
BirminghamLost in LaceDesigned to challenge our preconceptions of what lace can be and do, this exhibition includes large and often spectacular works in which spaces become fluid and thread creates...
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Did you know this man?
Our university has responded promptly to the recent claim by Janet Beer, vice-chancellor of Oxford Brookes University and Chair of the Higher Education Public Information Steering Group, that "...
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Leader: They won't handle the truth
Society increasingly resembles a confederacy of dunces, and our scholars and politicians must take their share of the blame
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You can't tell me anything
To judge by the gleefully bull-headed ignorance shown by politicians, bloggers and others, scientific evidence and scholarly analysis may soon count for nothing. Jon Marcus considers where this anti-...
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The week in higher education
• The bragging rights associated with getting a paper published in a leading journal such as Science or Nature are undeniable. But for the purposes of the research excellence framework, at least, a...
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From where I sit - A life still far from normal
"The effects of radiation do not come to people who are happy and laughing. They come to people who are weak-spirited, who brood and fret."Those were the words of Yamashita Shunichi, adviser to...
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Appointments
University of LincolnJacqui BriggsA politics expert from the University of Lincoln has been chosen to take on a senior role at the Political Studies Association. Jacqui Briggs, principal lecturer in...
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It's hard to bite the hand that feeds
Ahead of Lord Woolf’s report on the scandal of the LSE’s links with Libya, Christopher Davidson examines the issue of UK university funding by Gulf autocracies in the light of the Arab Spring
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The wonderful wizard of US
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is bewitched by the methods of an Arkansas teacher
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Theory of reciprocity
Social scientists and scientists will serve the public best by working together to present their findings, Alice Bell argues
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Mass effects for the arts as well as science
I was pleased to read Darrel Ince's article about the rise of the "citizen scientist" ("Powered by the people", 20 October). Citizens, and the oft-maligned amateur, have been involved in scientific...