Do my antennae look big in this? Time for our close-up, humans
This close-up of a drain-dwelling moth fly was among the 16 winners of the Wellcome Image Awards 2012, presented on 20 June.
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Once-a-decade check might be unbalanced
QAA event hears Willetts question option for the frequency of reviews. Jack Grove reports
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Few Tweet successes as Generation Y fails to use blog-standard tools
'Neglected' PhD students ignorant of latest research formats, study finds. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Doctor no more: Thai official finally loses title
A senior government official in Thailand has finally had his doctorate rescinded more than two years after a university investigation concluded that 80 per cent of his thesis on organic asparagus...
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Promotion of graduate premium is tantamount to 'mis-selling'
Elusive notion will mislead students and foul loan forecasts, experts hear. John Morgan writes
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News in brief
InternationalisationOverseas underwritingThe UK's universities and science minister has appealed to private investors to support British universities' overseas expansion while suggesting that the...
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Rock-solid way to sweeten proposal
Session at ESRC festival to reveal secrets of a successful grant application. Paul Jump reports
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Loughborough denies sleep unit is trapped in nightmare scenario
But professor claims Sleep Research Centre has been sidelined by REF strategy. Paul Jump reports
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Cure capitalism to make markets by the people, for the people
Academy called upon to help correct increasingly corrupt economic system. Matthew Reisz reports
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Greater value than money
Innovation oughtn't mean just profit-making technology - there is a subtler, social sort, explains Nick Petford
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If those who pay the pipers call the tune, make the fact public
Universities must disclose scholars' financial conflicts of interest or the integrity of faculty opinion will be jeopardised, says Cary Nelson
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'Breakaway professor' shock
One of our leading professors has admitted that he might be leaving his present post at our university to set up his own private college.Speaking to our reporter Keith Ponting (30), Professor Gordon...
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REF casts a shadow over teddy bears' picnic
When the 2014 research excellence framework was being devised to take into account real-world impact, relocating a long-established university nursery to make way for such research was probably not...
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Research intelligence - Continental rift over stem cell research
Funding of research using material from embryos reignites controversy, writes Elizabeth Gibney
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