Will it be Heigh-ho! or Oh no!
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For how long do research papers remain useful?
Academic research papers remain useful for several years after publication, according to a study of more than 2,800 journal articles
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Lack of funding for master’s creates PhD paradox
Research councils may have to ‘rethink’ requirements because of cuts to lower-level courses
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Edinburgh Napier scraps plan for Hong Kong campus
Queen’s Hill project cancelled after change in attitude towards overseas university branches
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News in brief - 30 January 2014
University of GlasgowWhistleblower joins rector raceEdward Snowden is standing as a candidate to be rector of the University of Glasgow. The whistleblower, who leaked documents revealing US and UK...
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University of Montreal cancels Wiley-Blackwell deal subscription
Cost-conscious institution rejects publisher’s ‘big deal’ on more than 1,000 journals
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Transplant inspires siblings’ Bloodlines project
Milton and Alex Mermikides’ AHRC-funded work fuses music, dance and medicine
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Campus close-up: Southampton Solent University
Innovation in creative disciplines, high student employability and wide participation are strengths, says vice-chancellor Van Gore
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World in brief - 30 January 2014
SingaporeOur man in the GULFThe president of a Singaporean university has been appointed by the World Economic Forum to chair a world higher education body. Tan Chorh Chuan, president of the National...
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Go8 wants fees on high return courses uncapped
Australia’s top universities have asked to be freed from price capping for courses with the highest graduate-earning premium
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Big bonus for Arizona State president (and he’s not the only one)
Michael Crow is among a growing band of US university leaders whose pay is performance-related
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THE Award-winning lecturer gives boredom the boot
Simon Kemp sends students on ISO 14001 module into big firms to audit and learn
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Grant winners - 30 January 2014
Royal SocietyUniversity Research FellowshipsAward winner: Pascal-Antoine ChristinInstitution: University of SheffieldValue: £451,518Fine-scale genetics of large-scale evolutionary innovationAward...
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Stephen Hawking professorship in cosmology a ‘threat to meritocracy’
Cambridge to put plan to set up new chair to vote after $6 million donation from Avery-Tsui Foundation
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York sticks by ‘no women’ promise to male student
Human rights invoked in guaranteeing female-free seminars