Probe leaves butterfly paper's fate up in the air
Top scholar may have broken PNAS rules when advocating unorthodox study. Zoë Corbyn reports
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V-c calls for united front to fend off funding axe
Warning that internal divisions are weakening the sector's response to cuts. Melanie Newman writes
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Crisis, what crisis? The 1970s get a bad press
There is a stock image of the 1970s as the lowest point in British postwar history. Widespread strikes, rubbish piling up on the streets and a bankrupt Labour Government forced to seek huge loans...
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Civic engagement is no 'Cinderella' activity and must become a priority
Scholar says community work should be part of teaching and research. Hannah Fearn reports
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Daytime TV: Profiles in courage
The efforts of injured soldiers battling and laughing their way back to life leave Gary Day humbled
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Nature vs science: citation impact by field
Thomson Reuters, Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1999–30 June 2009
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Manchester Metropolitan University - Where boot-heels wander
The birthplace of Bob Dylan is being turned into something of a tourist Mecca thanks to research by a Manchester Metropolitan University academic. David Leaver, senior lecturer in the business school...
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London Metropolitan University - Hawaii BO
A professor has leapt to the defence of smelly people everywhere. Robert McKeever, head of London Metropolitan University's department of law, governance and international relations, was reacting to...
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Bangor University - Wonder twins, activate
Academics from Wales and Tanzania are to be united under a new twinning agreement. Bangor University is the first UK institution to lead a pairing under the University Twinning and Networking Scheme...
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University of Stirling - Off the court, on to the campus
Britain's top wheelchair tennis player has put down his racket and picked up a pen, enrolling for a degree in sports studies and psychology at the University of Stirling. Gordon Reid arrived on...
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Show business - The value of knowledge transfer in the arts and humanities
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Contamination unlikely to have caused Manchester cancer cases
Independent inquiry finds that illnesses among Rutherford Building staff were probably coincidence. Melanie Newman reports
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Law scholars object to minister’s ‘selfish’ charge
Justice Secretary says universities are putting their interests first by offering too many law places. Hannah Fearn reports
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Sheffield staff “astonished” at being asked to clean up after themselves
The University and College Union has criticised plans to vacuum and wipe offices just once every few weeks
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Gloucestershire to shut London outpost
Move comes less than a year after a multimillion-pound refit. Melanie Newman reports