Academics

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Cambridge risks losing ‘unbelievable talent’ amid PhD funding cut
Warning by vice-chancellor Deborah Prentice comes as ‘Silicon Valley’ planned between Oxford and Cambridge

Sally Weale Education correspondent

08, Feb, 2025 @8:00 AM

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Defend the children’s bill from academy lobbyists | Letters
Letters: Alasdair Macdonald says the last 14 years were not a success for the schools system, while Michael Pyke thinks the government is right to rein in academies. Plus, a letter by Paul McGilchrist

03, Feb, 2025 @5:57 PM

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Quarter of leading UK universities cutting staff due to budget shortfalls
Up to 10,000 redundancies or job losses feared as institutes undergo restructuring

Richard Adams Education editor

01, Feb, 2025 @7:00 AM

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Tony Langlois obituary
Other lives: Ethnomusicologist and festival founder who was an active member of the sound-art community in Cork

Úna Langlois

31, Jan, 2025 @5:22 PM

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Joyce Crick obituary
Other lives: Lecturer in German literature at the University of London and translator of works by Freud

Oliver Crick

01, Dec, 2024 @5:32 PM

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Alexander Garvie obituary
Other lives: Glasgow University professor who specialised in the study of the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus

Douglas Cairns

11, Nov, 2024 @6:16 PM

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Plagiarism complaint against White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo dismissed
Author claims that 'progressive Black scholars in particular have been targeted’ after University of Washington rejects complaint over her 2004 doctoral thesis

Ella Creamer

18, Sep, 2024 @10:07 AM

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Richard Leeson obituary
Other lives: Linguist who became deputy director of Ealing College of Technology and was known affectionately as ‘Mr Liberal Arts’

Ann Halpern

06, Sep, 2024 @4:03 PM

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Prehistoric humans may have stuck pikes in ground to kill mammoths, say experts
People of ancient Clovis culture could have impaled huge animals on pikes rather than throwing spears, finds study

Nicola Davis Science correspondent

21, Aug, 2024 @6:00 PM

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British MPs appeal to Azerbaijan government to free detained academic
In letter to Ilham Aliyev, campaigners urge release of Gubad Ibadoghlu after pre-trial process halted indefinitely

Geneva Abdul

15, Aug, 2024 @11:01 PM

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Peter Reddaway obituary
Academic who played a major role in highlighting the repression of dissidents in the Soviet Union and in the founding of Index on Censorship

Jonathan Steele

11, Aug, 2024 @2:11 PM

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Leah Moyle obituary
Other lives: Academic expert on criminology whose special interest was people who have been coerced into drug dealing

Ross Coomber

05, Aug, 2024 @4:41 PM

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