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Take a cold shower
The suggestion made by two University of East Anglia students that urinating while showering could result in huge water savings (“The week in higher education”, News, 16 October) may have health...
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Knowing their limits
In response to Bruce Macfarlane’s piece (“If not now, when?”, Opinion, 16 October), I come from Hong Kong, and am now living in England. I’m one of the privileged who can immigrate.People in the West...
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Sociologists everywhere
Amanda Goodall and Andrew Oswald’s argument that the social sciences need a shake-up (“Time for a makeover?”, Features, 9 October) seems to have overlooked the fact that social scientists are often...
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Who is the priority?
As a student at the University of Essex, I’ve had the pleasure of being mentored by Marina Warner, Glyn Maxwell and Derek Walcott. Statements from the university that portray students’ education and...
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False assumptions of the USS
Last week, the Employers Pension Forum published “Proposed Changes to USS – Myths, Misconceptions and Misunderstandings”. The document contains misinformation and a mistake. We focus on the section “...
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Support levels diverge between post-1992s and Russell Group
Students at post-1992 institutions will receive just a quarter of the help offered by older universities
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Are students’ unions backing off the hard questions?
Battle of Ideas debate asks if policies of “no-platforming” make campuses ‘homogeneous zones of head-nodding’
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Liberal arts builds momentum in the UK
Symposium hears of efforts to build broad-based humanities study on British soil
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Campus close-up: Institute of Cancer Research
Putting industry collaboration at the heart of its mission helps the ICR to commercial and scholarly success
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Doctor Who and the portfolio career
Kevin Fong advises academics to scale the silo walls occasionally to regenerate their careers
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Object lessons: 100 examples of the stuff history was made on
Rebecca Onion on the pros and cons of scholarship as listicle
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Janet Beer, Tim Birkhead, Stephen Halliday, Nigel Rodenhurst and Jon Turney...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World, by Adrienne Mayor
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on a merging of the sexy myth of superwomen and history of nomadic fighters
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Modern Conspiracy: The Importance of Being Paranoid, by Emma A. Jane and Chris Fleming
Rachel Hoffman on a reconceptualisation of conspiracy theory and its role in the modern world