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John Hunter (1728-93) has been called the "father of modern surgery", since he was the first to apply a truly scientific methodology to the medical procedure.
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8 December 2011
Byte sighs - Digital humanities: too much information?
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Injunction malfunction: Sheffield withdraws High Court order on student protests
The University of Sheffield has withdrawn an injunction that students feared would ban campus protests.
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Rethink needed to avoid polarisation of sector, ministers told
Two proposals have been put forward to avert the “polarisation” of the sector as a result of the government’s student number plans.
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Inside Higher Ed: Politicisation of study abroad
By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed
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Cardiff students to compete for ‘free tuition for life’
A university is launching a competition to win an “Ultimate Scholarship”, which would give the winner free tuition at the institution for life.
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Life sciences strategy to strengthen links between universities, NHS and pharma
David Cameron is to announce a new government strategy developing links between university medical research, the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry.
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Harder working, less satisfied – the foreign scholar’s lot?
Foreign academics working in the US are more productive than their American counterparts – but are also less satisfied with their work, a study has concluded.
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IT infrastructure receives multi-million pound boost
The UK’s higher education and college IT network, JANET, is to benefit from a £31 million boost from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
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‘No confidence’ vote over UCL provost’s NHS role
The students’ union at University College London has passed a vote of no confidence in the provost, Malcolm Grant, after he was appointed to take charge of the NHS in England under controversial...
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'Labour would have spared sector Maoist and chaotic reforms'
The government’s higher education reforms have created “unnecessary risk” for universities, the shadow business secretary has said in his first major speech on the sector.
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Offa releases details of revised access agreements
Proposals by 25 universities and colleges to cut their tuition fees so they can bid for 20,000 cut-price undergraduate places in 2012-13 have been approved by the Office for Fair Access, but it has...
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Deadlock breaks as RLUK announces new ‘big deal’ with Elsevier
Research libraries have reached a “new and improved” deal with the journal publisher Elsevier that ends a four-month stand-off between the two.
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Scholars must provide proof of claim that history in the classroom is bunk
Historian calls for evidence, not scaremongering, to inform how subject is taught. Matthew Reisz writes