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Campus round-up
Imperial College LondonFairytale ending?The widely accepted "Goldilocks theory" of why life flourishes on Earth has been challenged. The idea posits there is no life on Venus or Mars because they are...
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Odds and quads
In 2010, sculptor Tom Harvey created this work from the remains of a 250-year-old cedar tree - the oldest on the campus of The Open University - which had fallen victim to an infestation of the small...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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5 January 2012
Cash cow disease - How the wages of validation led to a 118-year-old institution’s demise
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Questions, questions
Students are suffering from survey fatigue - as are we all, says Sally Feldman
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Scientists call for repeal of 'deluded' EPSRC measures
Willetts receives demand for ‘complete rethink’ of council’s structure and policies. Paul Jump reports
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‘Late surge’ in applications helps reduce year-on-year fall in Ucas figures
University applications by UK students are running 7.6 per cent below last year’s levels, the latest figures show.
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Aim for the stars in science - but don't ask for more money
David Willetts has set out proposals for major multi-national corporations to join forces with a foreign or British university and establish new graduate-only research institutions in the UK.
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Inside Higher Ed: Fallout from a lab tragedy
By Allie Grasgreen for Inside Higher Ed
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Poor grades? Blame the protests
Students at King’s College, Cambridge, spent so much time on protests challenging the higher education reforms that they neglected their studies, according to its provost.
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Top of the higher education pops
Funding cuts, how not to write a PhD thesis and the Browne review’s research were among the most popular stories with readers of our website in 2011.Our annual round-up of vice-chancellors' pay and...
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Overseas student safety in spotlight after Indian postgrad murder
The murder of an Indian postgraduate student has prompted calls for a report to “reassure” overseas students over their safety in the UK.Anuj Bidve, 23, who was studying micro-electronics at...
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Higher education figures recognised in New Year honours
Three British Nobel Prize winners head the list of academics recognised in this year’s New Year honours list.Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both professor of physics at University of Manchester...
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Postgrad disputes mark in ‘anti-Israel’ row
An Israeli postgraduate student is claiming victory on her dissertation regrade after alleging her supervisor had “anti-Israel” prejudices.A complaint by Smadar Bakovic, 35, who lives near Jerusalem...