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A one-off premium for moving to a challenging school, or another part of the country, is a lacklustre response to a big shortage. It’s also been tried before.
Would formal exams be a better, and fairer, measure of pupil performance than teacher assessments?
Despite its cutting-edge image, Japan has a soft spot for the decidedly 20th-century machines.
It took nearly two years for the Royal Navy to tell the story of the heroic voyage of the crippled submarine HMS Triumph.
If you thought slavery in the US was confined to southern states, think again.
Telemedical abortions are safe and ensure access for all those who may need treatment.
Is this decision a real ‘bombshell,’ as it has been depicted? Or does it represent an important step towards the implementation of UNDRIP within provincial and federal legal framework?
Whether in defeat or victory, each Olympian’s story is one of dedication and perseverance. Children’s authors have long cottoned on to their literary potential
The rules around risk reporting are changing, but there’s still a long way to go.
In our “post-truth” political era, there is a lot we can learn from an under-appreciated philosopher who focused on “thinking clearly.”
Academic progress seems to be the government’s primary concern. But school pupils have experienced lockdown learning – and losses – in a myriad ways
Endurance is a surprisingly progressive way of creating a better future.
Critics of the UK’s public broadcaster will be sharpening their knives over the latest scandal.
The researchers used machine learning to study the 2,000-year-old document.
It’s possible that low oxygen levels in caves produced hallucinations – but that doesn’t explain the majority of prehistoric art.
Barometric pressure headaches are often the result of pressure changes in our sinuses.
In some cases, people would hold back from sharing a memory in case it didn’t receive enough likes.
Cyber attacks have created new dilemmas for philosophers who determine the ethics of war.
The Post’s editor, Arthur Mann, withstood extreme pressure to fall in with orthodox political thinking over appeasement with Nazi Germany.
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Professor of Psychology, Durham University
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Emeritus Professor of Physics at Durham University, Durham University
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Professor of Law, Durham University
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Senior Research Fellow in Disruptive Technologies, Space/Environmental Ethics, Visual ethnographer, Durham University
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Associate Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Professor in High Medieval History, Durham University
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Associate Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Professor of International Political Theory, Durham University
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Professor in Development and Conflict, Durham University
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Associate Professor of Physics, Durham University
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Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Durham University
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Professor of Philosophy, Durham University
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Professor of extragalactic astrophysics (dark matter and cosmology), Durham University
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Associate Professsor, Department of Psychology, Durham University
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Principal of South College, Durham University
