Odds and quads
This small flock of fibreglass sheep appeared overnight earlier this year on a building known as The Stripe at the University of Winchester.
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University of KentStephen PeckhamThe new director of the Centre for Health Services Studies at the University of Kent said he was "delighted" at the move. Stephen Peckham, who joins from the London...
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Sit on it
Tim Birkhead has been studying a single guillemot population for 40 years. Here he explains how such commitment provides insights that the three-year studies favoured by the research councils cannot...
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9 August 2012
Wait for it - Playing the long game has its advantages
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What inspiration blooms, watered by stormy weather
Rain is a national obsession - never more than in British films. James Clarke reveals what happens when the heavens open
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All killer, no filler
New gatekeeping needed for real choice and access, says Malcolm Gillies
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Let academic freedom ring
Martha Biondi on the black student protests of the 1960s and 1970s that transformed US campus life and led to the birth of African American studies
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Sir Albert Sloman, 1921-2012
The founding vice-chancellor of the University of Essex - an institution shaped by "his clear-sighted vision" - has died.Sir Albert Sloman was born in Cornwall on 14 February 1921 and educated at...
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THE Scholarly Web
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Campus round-up
Nottingham Trent UniversityHive mindsA colony of 10,000 honeybees has been established on a university's city campus in the hope of boosting urban biodiversity and helping to arrest the insect's...
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Scientific adviser serves with local counsel
Southampton City Council has appointed a chief scientific adviser, claiming to be the first local authority to do so.
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Places scarce as Scottish exam results are announced
More Scottish students have been accepted on to places at universities in the country than this time a year ago, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service.
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Higher education’s five chariots of fire
Almost a fifth of the athletes competing for Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics are current or former students from five UK universities, an analysis has shown.
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Inside Higher Ed: Wheaton’s Emergency Shift
By Libby A. Nelson for Inside Higher Ed
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And the gold for making women welcome goes to…
The University of Edinburgh’s department of chemistry has become only the second department to win the UK’s top accolade for addressing the under-representation of women in science, technology,...