Ethics guards are 'stifling' creativity
Social scientists claim methods that inspire students are sidelined by 'protectionist' outlook. Tony Tysome reports. Undercover investigations by academics are being marginalised by a "misguided"...
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Sussex PhDs in search of utopia seek wealthy allies
Disillusioned PhD students at Sussex University have broken away from the "stifling" and "politically correct" higher education system and set up their own research centre, writes Anna Fazackerley....
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Whistleblower wins the praise of minister
Health Minister Andy Burnham has praised the whistleblower who raised the alarm about the conduct of a study of Procter and Gamble's osteoporosis drug Actonel. He said Aubrey Blumsohn, a doctor and...
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Majority of students broke law last term, study finds
Academics may be suspicious that their students are engaging in plagiarism but a new study reveals that this is the least of their criminal behaviour. A campus crime survey of more than 1,200...
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Next week
Where's the business Plan? Will grant applicants have to demonstrate commercial potential and usefulness to win funding? We assess the latest proposals from research council chiefs Plus From hero to...
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Absence of elite distorts picture
Low student reply rate keeps top institutions off tally of campuses and lessens the impact of results. Jessica Shepherd reports. More of the UK's top universities were excluded from the National...
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Traditional mix is best
Cambridge University has for the first time advised prospective students that they need at least two A levels in traditional academic subjects to stand a realistic chance of gaining a place on one of...
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No-show is a problem
Grigory Perelman, the Russian academic credited with solving one of the toughest problems in mathematics, has declined the maths equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Professor Perelman, who claimed to have...
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Cash for e-science
The Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Joint Information Systems Committee have announced a call for bids for research grants in e-...
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New tech, good or bad?
Academics at Goldsmiths, University of London, have won a £1.25 million grant to study whether new technologies will help or hinder society. The Leverhulme Trust, an education charity, has given the...
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Student remembered
Kingston University has awarded a £5,000 travel scholarship in memory of one of its students killed in the July 7 London bombings. Business graduate Philip Russell died on the number 30 bus in...
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Suffolk ambitions
Plans for a £20 million building in Ipswich that will form the centrepiece of the new University Campus Suffolk were made public this week, ahead of a formal planning application. UCS is a...
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Top institutions accept students with D grades
Chaminda Jayanetti and Patrick Ward uncover a bid to fill places by dropping entry requirements. Elite universities were this week reducing their advertised entry requirements to as low as three...
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Cash unclaimed as engineering applications plummet
Engineering scholarships worth thousands of pounds have been left on the shelf because not enough school leavers want to study a degree in the troubled discipline, The Times Higher can reveal. The UK...
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Excited by the wonders of our material world
What do money markets, molecules and magma have in common? A cohort of talented, energetic researchers in physical sciences, as Anthea Lipsett reports. The widely held view of academics in the...