Research intelligence - The Young ones look for British home
Scientists at the peak of their creativity are trying to find a voice in Britain. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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The week in higher education
• Plans to almost double tuition fees in Quebec could be scrapped after a student-led "maple spring" unseated the province's government, The Guardian reported on 5 September. The election of a...
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From Where I Sit - A real Nowhere man
Amid the fallout from the scandal over Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State University assistant football coach convicted of child abuse, how could one possibly associate the university with utopia...
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Odds and quads
The Apollo 15 mission of July and August 1971 was the first to allow a manned spacecraft to spend an extended period of time - close to three days - on the surface of the Moon.
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Appointments
University of WolverhamptonJohn DarlingThe new dean of research at the University of Wolverhampton has expressed his delight at being part of "ambitious plans for investing in research at the...
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India and London Met lose that loving feeling
Joanna Sugden reports from India on falling student applications and pre-emptive cutbacks
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13 September 2012
Politics, philosophy, economics - Troubled outsider’s outsized significance
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Curiosity knows no bounds
Policymakers focusing on science's utility have consigned the humanities to a supporting role, but scholars in each of the 'two cultures' understand that they share a love of discovery and capacity...
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Another fine mess
Caught between posturing government ministries and kicked about like the proverbial political football, London Metropolitan University may have reached the point where it is no longer match fit,...
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Love it when planning comes together
The coalition government's latest wave of planning reforms has been accompanied by a sentiment, cleared by No 10, to "get the planners off our backs". Such rhetoric threatens to cause potential...
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Gonzo gratitude (1 of 2)
Very occasionally, I receive nice emails from people I have never met but who have read my stuff. This morning I got one that began thus: "Dear Professor Hackley, I have just submitted an [Economic...
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Gonzo gratitude (2 of 2)
Helen Sword makes a good point about the clarity and readability of academic prose. Of course, not all academic concepts and research results lend themselves to being easily grasped and understood,...
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Do compare like with like
Although Felipe Fernández-Armesto writes authoritatively on the merits of high tuition fees in relationship to a positive student experience ("Reassuringly expensive", 30 August), he fails to...
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Radical regimen
The US is reframing its public health training so that it addresses the needs of a modern population ("US changes dose to treat public health malaise", 6 September). In the UK, the public health...