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The Future of Journalism in Advanced Democracies
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a hard-drinking author now better remembered for his stage plays: "London, the crouching monster, like...
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Postgraduate Research Awards
Deadline: 30/11/2007
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Goodbye blue skies?
Plans to award research grants on the basis of 'economic impact' are sparking widespread anxiety, reports Melanie Newman Concerns that academics may not win research grants unless they can...
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Summers' storm was 'written in his genes'
Could genes explain the controversial behaviour of Larry Summers, the former president of Harvard University, who caused an uproar when he questioned whether women possessed the innate potential for...
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'Scientists recognise that they have to work with the media and not against it'
Wellcome Trust's Katrina Nevin-Ridley urges her fellow publicists to help researchers get the message across Katrina Nevin-Ridley, head of media at the Wellcome Trust, wants to recruit university...
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On the move...
* York University has made the following appointments: Tom Fleming , former health, safety and environment manager at Loughborough University, becomes director of health and safety; Brian Porter ,...
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Professor says teaching focus blocked career
'Outstanding scholar' blames emphasis on RAE for bar to promotion. Rebecca Attwood reports An academic who has dedicated his career to improving teaching practice has spoken out about his failed...
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So, Beelzebub, have you been bullied today?
Asking the Devil whether he has ever been bullied is not a task that most researchers would expect to tackle. But a Nottingham University team did just that, quizzing "Beelzebub", a tiger and a...
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143,370 undergraduates give university life big thumbs-up
More students than ever are satisfied with their university experience, the results of this year's National Student Survey show, writes Rebecca Attwood. Initial data indicate that students have given...
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Next week
United front The Welsh Assembly's new Education Minister, Jane Hutt, reveals why mergers are back on the agenda PLUS A below-stairs perspective on Virginia Woolf
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Fewer students work
The proportion of students undertaking paid employment during term time has fallen for the first time in four years, according to the Royal Bank of Scotland Student Living Index, 2007. It found that...
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Merton is top again
Graduates of Merton College, Oxford have again been the most successful in their final exams, according to the official Norrington Table. Merton has been top of the table, which ranks colleges...
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No fees for refugees
Vice-chancellors in Scotland have welcomed the announcement by the Scottish Executive that the children of asylum-seekers will not have to pay tuition fees. Children of asylum-seekers who have been...