Research intelligence - Climate of change
The outlook is good as East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit seeks to share its data. Paul Jump reports
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Leader: Making no plans for Nigel
The UK and California both face a shortfall of university places, but at least snobbery isn't making things worse across the pond
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Scandal of sonic abuse
One man's music is so often another man's noise, laments Malcolm Gillies
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The heat is on to turn down that dial
Universities are offering students incentives to cut their energy consumption. Nicholas Chan reports
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Odds and quads
Pillar Man, a bronze sculpture by the Norwegian artist Nicolaus Widerberg, is set against a wall of Northumbria University's gallery in Newcastle.It stands 6.5m tall and emerges from a stone "river...
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Scots band together over commitment to research
Research is costly, but Scotland is against creating teaching-only institutions, writes Hannah Fearn
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THE World University Rankings
More than two months ago, we published the first draft of our planned new methodology for the 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.The draft, detailing how we will draw together 13...
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Grant Winners
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILCareer Acceleration Fellowship scheme£38 million has been awarded to 46 researchers under the Leadership and Career Acceleration Fellowship scheme to...
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Blog confidential: Insistence and resistance
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Insistence and resistance
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Appointments
University of Edinburgh, Greg WalkerThe Regius chair of rhetoric and English literature at the University of Edinburgh will be filled by Greg Walker, who was been Masson professor of English at the...
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Array of errors, but Spanish chemist stands by concept
Watchdog recommends retraction of Science paper after 'indications' of bad practice. Paul Jump writes
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Happy smiling deans make for bad websites
Business schools are "wasting valuable selling space" by making amateurish marketing mistakes such as using pictures of their deans as a key selling point on their websites.A catalogue of the web-...
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News in brief
Grant incomeMore books, more cashAn independent study funded by the journal publisher Elsevier has found a correlation between investment in university library collections and grant income. The study...
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Class of 2010 follows US lead
Graduating students at Loughborough kick-start American-style gift scheme. Hannah Fearn reports
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University of East Anglia - Data from the deep
An underwater robot is being used by scientists to monitor the ocean off the coast of Spain. The £150,000 robotic glider is remotely controlled by scientists 900 miles away at the University of East...