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This vast 50-tonne steam hammer, once used to reshape steel bolts, was built in Bolton in 1917, and remained in active service at the Atlas Forge, opposite what is now the University of Bolton's...
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Poor staff relations threaten Birmingham’s sociology department
The faculty has also been criticised for a poor RAE showing and a lack of research grants. Melanie Newman reports
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12 November 2009
The key to all knowledge - Can the open access movement make research results free to all?
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Bristol announces 250 jobs to go by 2011-12
Vice-chancellor tells staff that cuts are accompanied by wider review identifying where university is ‘wasting resources’ in a bid to find £15m savings, reports John Morgan
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Gloria Monday: I should never have taken over the life of Brian
Now that her manager has retired, Gloria is left to pick up the pieces
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‘Energy therapy’ project in school denounced as ‘psychobabble’
EmoTrance and other psychotherapeutic schemes must be evaluated scientifically, scholars say. Melanie Newman reports
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The insecure scholar: Coming clean
When do you reveal personal reasons behind career choices?
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Academic made ‘untrue’ declaration about ‘full access’ to research material, GMC finds
Lead author who had not seen all of Procter & Gamble’s raw data about osteoporosis drug was ‘negligent’ but not ‘deliberately dishonest’. Phil Baty reports
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Opinion: It’s showtime on campus
Stage experience is vital for budding performers, says Luke Scott, who enthuses his students with a hands-on approach
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Lord Browne to lead fees review
David Eastwood and Julia King join panel considering the future of student support. John Gill reports
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'There’s no better job'
It pays to be an academic during a recession, says Jon Marcus
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Scientific advisers demand fresh start with Government
Great and good unveil principles to guide relationship between the state and scientific advice in the aftermath of the Nutt affair. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Opinion: Any education, so long as it’s training
Labour’s student-as-customer framework reduces the academy to a glorified apprenticeship system and leaves Donald Braben praying for a predictable future
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The failure of History
"People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make." G.K. Chesterton
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Taking Flight
John Turner finds that piloting an aeroplane is the perfect tonic after a hectic week