UCU snubs concerns
Gert Weisskirchen is the representative of the chairman-in-office on combating anti-Semitism for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Weisskirchen, who is a professor, social...
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Calling all RAE rejects
May I ask academics who have found themselves unexpectedly excluded from the research assessment exercise to write to me at: castaway@brookes.ac.uk . It seems to me there could be many of us who...
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English advances
Fiona Hyslop's article ("Scotland's learning nation widens its reach", July 20) just hints at some of the difficulties Scotland will face thanks to the recent decision of the Scottish Parliament to...
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Is there a gene for racism?
The questions of a biological basis for racist behaviour and for religion were key issues in a debate at Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study devoted to the legacy of Charles Darwin....
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Sacré bleu
Religion is linked to genocide and jihad and is at odds with the Enlightenment, says Michel Onfray, but he still engages with believers, he tells Julian Baggini In recent years, it has somehow become...
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The choice is there - but not for everyone
Labour's championing of market forces as a way to improve public services may have had an unexpected side-effect: the entrenchment of privilege at Oxbridge. Amanda Root explains In 1997, the hope was...
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Lost in the fault lines of Zionism
The Last Resistance
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Identities forged in the Dark Ages
Who Are You? Identification, Deception and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe
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Are we killing with kindness or wise to be lending a helping hand?
Does Foreign Aid Really Work? - Making Aid Work
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Manifesto for a modern ancient
Can Oxford Be Improved?
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Resilient elephant stumbles through
India after Gandhi
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The father of the country’s long-enduring line
The Bourbons - The Capetians
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Pay talks face radical reform
Employers back consortia of universities taking on responsibility for salaries and insist on single-table talks, reports Melanie Newman The prospect of academics' salary levels being set according to...
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O come all ye faithless - join the Christians
Student wine societies should be open to teetotallers and choral societies must welcome non-singers, an independent adjudicator has ruled, writes Melanie Newman. Ruling on a dispute between the...
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'The higher the risk of failure, the more exciting the potential result'
outhampton's new head of electronics and computer science has an adventurous streak in and out of work When fire devastated Southampton University's School of Electronics and Computer Science in 2005...