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Birmingham City UniversityHipsters can, and should, dig itThe relationship between urban areas and the countryside must be reconfigured, according to researchers at Birmingham City University. An...
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Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude
Discussion of the merits of paired works used to be a sociable pastime. Has the fashion for chronological museology narrowed our experience, asks Sheila McTighe
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Research intelligence - Euro funding star in the ascendant
ERC leader Helga Nowotny talks to Paul Jump about concentration, competition and the future
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Laissez-faire attitude to Sarkozy's reforms as election looms
Economic crisis leaves French politicians tight-lipped on universities budget. Clea Caulcutt writes
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Leader: They never came to the boil
The dearth of funds to invest in teaching today makes the Cetls' meagre legacy all the more disappointing
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From Where I sit - Threat to national security
Throughout the history of the US, the nation has drawn strength from its large, established middle class - families who owned homes, saved for retirement and lived in relative security. They could...
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The week in higher education
• Racism is usually blamed on complex factors such as socio-economic background, peer group influence and political propaganda, but one academic study has suggested that rock music also has a case to...
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Women and children first
For decades the science of child-rearing was guided by patriarchal ideas, but now the cradle rocks to an older rhythm. Eric Michael Johnson, in conversation with eminent evolutionary biologists Sarah...
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15 March 2012
The nature of nurture - How the past shows the way to a healthy human future
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Odds and Quads
This "flying machine" is suspended from the ceiling of the Athena Building in Teesside University, where it forms part of a suite of 26 pieces called Dream Migration.
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‘Record’ boost to EPSRC doctoral grants
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is to invest a record amount of money into its doctoral training grants in 2012-13.
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Funding bodies push for team effort on bids
Researchers are being “strongly encouraged” by state-sponsored funding bodies to consider whether their bids could be strengthened by collaborating with other groups and institutions.
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Students walk out over university policy
Students are taking part in a national walkout at campuses across the UK today as part of a “week of action” calling on the government and universities to “come clean” on their plans for higher...