MPs demand teacher training shake-up
9 February 2010
Select committee wants higher entry requirements and an end to undergraduate-level provision. John Morgan reports
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BREAKING NEWS
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Take a number: applications to study rise 23%
8 February 2010
Universities call for more funded places as recession intensifies competition for places.
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Two-tier system should replace ‘ramshackle’ university governance
8 February 2010
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‘Independent’ Oxford application exposes system’s weaknesses
7 February 2010
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OU limits Clubcard fee-payment scheme to first years
5 February 2010
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Strike threat as job cut talks break down at Leeds
5 February 2010
READERS' REACTIONS
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Impact refuseniks, the nature of truth and scholars: making the world a worse place
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Have your say on grant applications and the impact agenda, Simon Blackburn's essay on truth and a US scholar's assertion that intellectuals ruined the 20th century
COVER STORY
Truth? There's the rub
4 February 2010
Politicians and people profess to prize authenticity and integrity, but discerning the truthful person from the sincere but self-deceived and the dissembling is tricky. Simon Blackburn ponders questions of virtue
ONLINE COLUMNISTS
The insecure scholar: A faint whiff of security
9 February 2010
A positive start at a new university makes the possibility of finding the dream job more believable
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Catcher revisited
8 February 2010
In the aftermath of J. D. Salinger’s death, Robert Segal looks again at the novel that made his reputation, and asks whether it is relevant today
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The insecure scholar: No more Mr Cellophane
2 February 2010
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How not to write a PhD thesis
28 January 2010
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The insecure scholar: Experience – just not the right kind
26 January 2010
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Opinion: From Tottenham to the top
24 January 2010
PEOPLE
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Scientific soup
Scientific soup
4 February 2010
Economist Andrew Oswald's appointment to a top science journal's board highlights a blurring of the hard and soft sciences
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Tony Dewberry, 1950-2010
Tony Dewberry, 1950-2010
4 February 2010
A recently retired deputy vice-chancellor at Bath Spa University, who was responsible for tailoring its historic campuses to the needs of a modern university, has died.
RESEARCH
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Research Intelligence: Is it worth it in the long run?
Research Intelligence: Is it worth it in the long run?
4 February 2010
Research council plans to track outcomes for ten years are receiving a mixed reaction, says Zoe Corbyn
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Grant winners
4 February 2010
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Top nations in physics
4 February 2010
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Research intelligence: Feeding of the nine billion needs science, not miracles
28 January 2010
BOOKS
Book of the week: Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness
4 February 2010
John Gilbey is reassured that not always having an answer is normal
The Imagination of Evil
4 February 2010
For many readers, morbid stories reaffirm a conviction in their own morals, finds Stacy Gillis
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Atlantic Gateway: The Port and City of Londonderry since 1700
4 February 2010
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The Rhetoric of Terror: Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror
4 February 2010
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Elizabethan Architecture: Its Rise and Fall, 1540-1640
4 February 2010
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The Canon: Film as Film: Understanding and Judging Movies. By V.F. Perkins
4 February 2010
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What are you reading?
4 February 2010
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Anna Seward: A Constructed Life, A Critical Biography
4 February 2010
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Published this week
4 February 2010
OPINIONS AND LEADERS
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Leader: The trust deficit's heavy toll
Leader: The trust deficit's heavy toll
4 February 2010
The recession and a succession of government cuts and blunders have robbed young people of their future and of hope
THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS EVER WRITTEN?
Canonical texts: are these the most influential books ever written?
23 April 2009
Are you obsessed with a 'baggy monster' or has a photocopied pamphlet sparked your passion for a whole new area of research? To kick off our new weekly series, leading scholars explain which books they believe are definitive in their field
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THE CONFERENCES
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LAURIE TAYLOR COLUMN
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Brand on the run?
Brand on the run?
4 February 2010
Our Deputy Head of Corporate Branding, Christine Hovis, has responded vigorously to a complaint made to the Advertising Standards Authority about our university's branding strategy.
PILED HIGHER AND DEEPER
Cartoon by Cham
4 February 2010
