Research intelligence - Continental rift over stem cell research
Funding of research using material from embryos reignites controversy, writes Elizabeth Gibney
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Morocco mission aims to build bridges and silence scepticism
British scholars head for North Africa to forge links with territory neglected by UK sector. David Matthews reports
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REF casts a shadow over teddy bears' picnic
When the 2014 research excellence framework was being devised to take into account real-world impact, relocating a long-established university nursery to make way for such research was probably not...
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Leader: Want gold? Let's see some cash
The move to open access should not mean cuts to research: the government and industry could pitch in to cover the transition
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From Where I Sit - Big Bong theory
Two memoirs by Indian scholars who spent many years at Oxbridge offer salutary insights into life at the ancient universities. Tapan Raychaudhuri, author of The World in Our Time and a professor of...
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The week in higher education
• "Stinking rich" colleges at the University of Cambridge are branching out into some unusual commercial activities, according to The Times columnist Richard Morrison, in an article published on 22...
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Raiders of the lost archives
In the age of digitisation, the ‘search’ part of research has become a virtual experience. Although progress has many advantages, John Sutherland laments the end of the scholar-adventurer and the...
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28 June 2012
Flat out - China’s exhaustive - and exhausting - drive for improvement
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Conducting material
Malcolm Gillies on music, leadership and youth
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Odds and quads
These items form part of the records of the Mission to Seafarers, now held by Hull University Archives at the Hull History Centre.
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Edmund Spenser: A Life, by Andrew Hadfield
Willy Maley hails a monumental biography that sets new standards in Renaissance criticism
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MPs warn against copyright exception for data mining
The government should resist changing copyright law to allow free “mining” of data and text in scientific papers, a cross-party group of MPs has said.
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Chinese agent’s C-grade claim sparks Cardiff probe
Cardiff University is investigating reports that a prospective Chinese student was told by a recruitment agent that she could win a place at the institution despite not meeting its entry requirements.