Imperial broke animal welfare rules on ‘unacceptable scale’
Imperial College London broke animal welfare rules “on an unacceptable scale”, creating an “unacceptable risk” of “appreciable” harm to animals.

Imperial College London broke animal welfare rules “on an unacceptable scale”, creating an “unacceptable risk” of “appreciable” harm to animals.

Mark Pegg is to step down as chief executive of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education this month, it has been announced.

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A physicist who played a central role in developing the theory of supersymmetry – often known as SUSY – has died

We speak to the new chair to the advisory board of the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath

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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilAward winner: Davey JonesInstitution: Bangor UniversityValue: £61,710The environmental IoT: understanding and managing the natural environment...

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Lara Cook in her review of William Zimmerman’s Ruling Russia: Authoritarianism from the Revolution to Putin (Books, 26 June) is amused by his suggestion that Stalin’s loyal apparatchik Vyacheslav...
The article on plagiarism (“Spain’s battle for originality is like herding (copy)cats”, News, 26 June) is a tad complacent when discussing this problem in the UK.I have heard postgraduates discussing...
I was very interested to read your article on academic exile (“Home away from home”, Features, 26 June), not least because this is an experience I am familiar with, having held academic positions in...
Students, not just those studying A levels, do indeed forget a large proportion of what they have been taught (“New students ‘have forgotten bulk of A-level knowledge’ ”, 25 June).It happens at all...
I enjoyed Laurie Taylor’s piece on immersive research (“Get stuck in”, Features, 19 June), and – as a part-time criminologist – share some of his nostalgia for the heyday and published classics of...
Your report on how government policy may be informed by an unsupportable human capital theory of educational economics (“Improvement by degree or innate talent?”, News, 26 June) made sobering reading...