Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two
Men serving on the front line are like puppets on a string, postulated German playwright Wolfgang Borchert on his return from the Eastern Front: all individual thought and impulses reduced to an...
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The American Civil War
The American Civil War, or as we prefer to call it in the South, the War Between the States (or, alternatively, the War of Northern Aggression or the War for Southern Independence), has captivated me...
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? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- The Theory of Island Biogeography RevisitedEdited by Jonathan B. Losos, professor in organismic and evolutionary biology, Harvard University, and Robert E....
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No happiness at Poppleton - official
One of our leading low-scoring RAE academics has joined in the debate about the value of the ESRC's £4.4 million project investigating the relationship between work and happiness.Dr Quintock, of the...
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Go find those marrows
Sally Feldman mourns the demise of local papers and regional television
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Research intelligence: Saved from extinction
A new funding scheme aims to revive research in systematics and taxonomy. Zoe Corbyn reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Competing is fine but make it fair
As private providers make inroads into the sector, it's only right that all institutions are subject to the same rules
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From where I sit: Northern exposure
They say the best way to handle nerves when public speaking is to imagine your audience naked, but that wasn't much help when I gave a talk at the British Naturism winter bash somewhere in the north...
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Deborah Baker, 1949-2009
A world-renowned expert on inequalities in health has died.Deborah Baker was born in London on 23 September 1949 and studied at Brunel University before qualifying as a psychologist in 1973.She went...
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Divided academy won't boost quality 1
How disappointing it was to read Peter Williams' comments in your magazine ("Engage with quality assurance or face state takeover, scholars told", 19 November).Williams, the former chief executive of...
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Divided academy won't boost quality 2
The Government's approach to quality is to remove support from courses regarded as unsatisfactory. Such a policy seems destructive. A more positive approach would be to use metrics of quality to...
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Priorities aren't working
Academics are concerned about the objectivity of a £4.4 million Economic and Social Research Council call, with additional support from the Medical Research Council, for bids to study the happiness...
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Missing members 1
Your article on higher education mission groups sets out to provide a complete picture of the bodies representing institutions in a diverse higher education ecology ("Do you want to be in my gang?",...
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Missing members 2
In your piece on the groups representing UK universities, you include the recently renamed University Alliance. Historically, it consisted of all those and only those institutions that were not...