Only impact worth having
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto is correct when he writes that "the best test of what my British colleagues are now learning to call the 'impact' of research is: how does it change undergraduates' minds and...
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Feel the energy
Further to your report on the University of Essex's study into the health dangers of terrestrial trunked radio, or Tetra, "a type of phone mast" ("Hold the phones, it's fine", 15 April), it may be...
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Dubious vintage
Shock, horror! Nice, predominantly middle-class academics to vote Lib Dem ("Clear preference for Clegg in poll", 8 April)?Perhaps more interesting than this entirely predictable outcome is the...
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Obituary: Sir James Black, 1924-2010
A Nobel laureate who pioneered two major advances in 20th-century medicine has died.Sir James Black was born in Lanarkshire on 14 June 1924 and educated at Beath High School, where pressure from a...
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Hefce gets huffy
In a shock move, the Higher Education Funding Council for England has issued a strong condemnation of the postgraduate course on The Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism currently being taught by Mr Ted...
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From where I sit: If the robes fit...
Just when you think that things will get serious, suddenly they become absurd.On 1 April, the Right to Education Act in India was implemented, which makes school education a fundamental right for all...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Research intelligence: Smart(phone) moves
Zoë Corbyn reports from Washington DC on journal publishers' plans to get a piece of the mobile action
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Leader: More than money is at stake
Exploiting foreign students may briefly bolster balance sheets, but such disrespectful treatment will cause long-term damage
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Easy money? That's rich
Topping the salary table is not all it's made out to be, says Malcolm Gillies
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Norwich calling
Memorabilia collected by the co-founder of punk rock band the Clash has gone on display at a Norwich institution. The personal archive of Mick Jones includes guitars, stage clothes and posters, as...
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Sheffield Hallam University - Students get inside scoop
A group of 30 journalism students will attend the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games to work as press volunteers. The students from Sheffield Hallam University will join about 30,000 volunteers oiling the...
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University of Nottingham - 'Lambrini ladies' losing out
The votes of up to 4 million "Lambrini ladies" are being written off by politicians, according to research. Steven Fielding, director of the University of Nottingham's Centre for British Politics, is...
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St George's/Oxford/Southampton - Alzheimer's and the word
Neurologists are investigating how Alzheimer's disease affects the written language of sufferers. A team at St George's, University of London, working with colleagues at the universities of Oxford...
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Birmingham City/Lancaster/Salford - All that jazz
The changing face of jazz and its role in European culture is to be analysed in a research project. The study will involve Birmingham City University, Lancaster University and the University of...