REF selectivity fears ‘prove unfounded’
Fears that universities would be more selective about who they submitted to the 2014 research excellence framework have proved unfounded.

Fears that universities would be more selective about who they submitted to the 2014 research excellence framework have proved unfounded.

The government will abolish the cap on student numbers “altogether” the year after next, George Osborne has announced

David Willetts has “lost control” of his department’s budget in “spectacular fashion”, according to his Labour counterpart Liam Byrne.

The government has been warned by a leading peer not to cut the science and research budget in today’s autumn statement.

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Chris Knight on an analysis of crisis as a narrative device

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A leading authority on the Soviet Union (and Yorkshire fishing communities) has died

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