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Located at the heart of the University of Manchester, next to the Manchester Museum, the Whitworth Hall was built with funds from the bequest of Sir Joseph Whitworth, an engineer famed for his work...
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Eastwood: spare a thought for boys
Funding chief says Bill offers universities chance to assess diversity policies, reports Melanie Newman
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20 years ago
A lecturer has become one of the first victims of student evaluation after a questionnaire found him to be below standard. The director of Wolverhampton Polytechnic's education research unit has...
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News in brief
Overseas admissionsChinese students up 15 per centThe number of Chinese students accepted to start degree courses in the UK this autumn has increased by almost 15 per cent compared with last year,...
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Australia ups the ante on global access to research
Canberra aims to unlock the 'dark archives' of publicly funded research, reports Zoe Corbyn
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Rising cost of living puts the squeeze on degrees
With the cost of higher education in the United States soaring, a small but growing number of students are trying to save money by squeezing the traditional four-year degree programme into just three...
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Overseas briefing
AustraliaPodcasts replace lecturersA student petition at the University of Western Sydney is demanding cuts in fees to match cuts in face-to-face teaching time. Tammy Lawlor, a 21-year-old first-year...
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Why a fruit fly is for life
Priority funding is on offer for replacing protected lab animals with invertebrates, reports Zoe Corbyn
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Grant winners
NC3RsThe National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research has funded ten new grants, totalling £2.6 million.Award winner: Sue BarnettInstitution: University of...
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Denham goes back to basics on funding for science
Minister rebuts allegations that only 'commercial' projects get government support, writes Zoe Corbyn
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Physicists hit back at king after call for scientists to focus on 'immediate' problems
Scientists mounted a robust defence of funding for fundamental research at the annual Festival of Science organised by the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA) in Liverpool last...
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Stem-cell scientist looks East for great leap forward
Zoe Corbyn meets the biologist working to boost Sino-British links and probe Chinese medicine's secrets
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Sterling silver assets
Mary Evans says the sector stands to gain from greater use of retired scholars' wisdom, experience and independence
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Forget the evidence - a real debate with the public is what we need
Educational research is meaningless and out of touch because it is completely divorced from wider social concerns, argues Dennis Hayes
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Retreating to the bunker
At first, those chosen for academic audit were startled rabbits, says Frank Burnet; soon they had wised up to minimise the risk of injury