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Just William deserves critical recognition
Richmal Crompton’s stories have thrilled generations of children but critics have kept their distance. It is time the establishment embraced them
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Training schemes help improve PhD outcomes
Development programmes can make for speedier submission of theses, research suggests
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Reach out and touch
Source: Alamy‘Hello, Manchester!’Our Head of Outreach Programmes, Mr Ned Kelly, has praised Manchester Metropolitan University for its “groundbreaking” efforts to reach out to the local community.Mr...
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Scientists feel pinch despite R&D plenty
‘Stable’ figures raise question: where has the money gone?
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Overseas placements for half of De Montfort students
University plans to give graduates more international experience
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Fashion and Age: Dress, the Body and Later Life, by Julia Twigg
Cheryl Buckley considers our changing relationships with clothes and fashion as we grow older
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The best place to learn teaching is on the job
Anthony Seldon says the best way to improve teaching in universities is through tough appraisals based on student feedback
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Cable: relax work rules facing overseas graduates
Minister’s call comes as Lib Dem conference votes to remove students from immigration figures
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The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945, by Richard Overy
Jill Stephenson praises a study of terror from the skies
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Academic consultants could save government time and money
Blog calls for state to give scholars opportunity to influence policy
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19 September 2013
Playing with fire - Green activism, big business and politics: an inflammable mixture for fracking research
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Odds and quads - 19 September 2013
St John’s College, Cambridge was established by charter in 1511 through the generosity of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509)
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Campus round-up - 19 September 2013
Scientific resolutionThis image (main picture) is a 3D scan of a glass sculpture of a jellyfish created in the 19th century by father-and-son team Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka. The German glass...
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Grant winners - 19 September 2013
Royal SocietyLeverhulme Trust Senior Research FellowshipsThe scheme is designed for scientists who would benefit from a period of full-time research without teaching and administrative duties....