To serve and reflect
In the US academy, engagement with the surrounding community and learning through service are 150-year-old ideals whose time has come again - but is the driving force altruism or self-interest?
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2 August 2012
A&E and R&D - Building research into the fabric of the NHS
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The Genius of Hitchcock: Celebrating Cinema's Master of Suspense
A season dedicated to the UK’s greatest film-maker shows that there is more to his sensibility than misogyny, Davina Quinlivan argues
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Anne Dunn, 1950-2012
A successful broadcaster who went on to become a leading academic expert in the field has died.Anne Dunn was born in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire on 12 August 1950 and educated at St Paul's Girls...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
Universities of Edinburgh and SheffieldTrouble aheadResearchers have used US military data from the war in Afghanistan to establish a model that can predict which regions of the country are more...
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Brazil's brightest head to US after failing UK language test
British border bureaucracy thwarts Science Without Borders scheme. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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QAA logo available to universities as quality mark
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education has launched a quality mark to assure students about standards in higher education.
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London 2012 legacy to include medical research centre
The anti-doping facilities serving the London 2012 Games will become a “groundbreaking” research centre into personalised medicine after the Olympics have ended, it has been announced.
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‘Considerable’ support for plan to scrap tariff points
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service’s tariff points scheme is a step closer to being scrapped after a consultation showed there was “considerable” support for the move.
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Physicists have eye on new £1.9m prize
A Russian billionaire and former physicist has awarded nine scientists prizes of $3 million (£1.9 million) each for their work in fundamental physics.
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Inside Higher Ed: Results are in: Harkin releases critical report on for-profits
By Paul Fain for Inside Higher Ed
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Independent HE commission makes call for evidence
The Institute for Public Policy Research has put out a call for evidence for its Commission on the Future of Higher Education in England.
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Honours for those who make learning come alive
Outstanding lecturers and learning-support staff within higher education have been recognised by the sector.
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Keep research away from prying FoIs, say MPs
A cross-party group of MPs has recommended a change in the law to prevent unpublished research data being released under the Freedom of Information Act.