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This Tippa model typewriter, silver fountain pen inscribed with the letter J, carved wooden box with record-player needles, brass knuckleduster and pipes made by Allen & Wright were all found in...
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Research intelligence - The bottom line on the research ripple effect
Paul Jump meets the economist working to quantify the value-added contributions of science spending
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From where I sit - Fundamental particles of recovery
The Republic of Ireland has had a bad run of late. Castigated as one of the "Pigs" (along with Portugal, Greece and Spain), the tell-tale signs of an overheated economy have long since left the...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
Nottingham Trent UniversityBuilding on an iconic pastSir David Attenborough has officially reopened two iconic university buildings. Nottingham Trent University's striking 1950s Newton Building and...
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The week in higher education
If higher education feels as if it is under a bit of a cloud, look on the bright side - the gloom and doom might mean that you live longer. Research at Yale University suggests that people who were...
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No time for short cuts
Kevin Fong gives the revision lecture that his students need but don’t want
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26 May 2011
Don’t look back, look forward - David Willetts explains why change is both necessary and beneficial
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Leader: Case for change yet to convince
When bad news goes global and even good news is inconvenient, the government faces a huge challenge in pushing for reform
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THE Scholarly Web
A weekly round-up of the best on the scholarly web
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Mis-sent email’s killer line shocks student union officer
The chairman of the board of governors at London Metropolitan University has responded to a complaint from a students’ union officer by advising the vice-chancellor to “kill her with information and...
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The 2000th issue super duper competition extravaganza
Are you are a fan of: Glitz? Glamour? Free booze?
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Not such a capital idea: MPs critique London site for research centre
The Commons Science and Technology Committee has questioned the decision to locate the new UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation in central London.
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Hefce help crucial for vital but vulnerable subjects, report finds
The provision by universities of “strategically important and vulnerable” subjects such as mathematics, science and modern languages would have suffered if the funding council had not intervened with...
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Student complaints watchdog to name and shame two institutions
Two universities have failed to comply with decisions made by the student complaints watchdog, in the first such instances, a cross-party group of MPs has heard.