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Odds and quads: Knitting Collections and Knitting Reference Library, University of Southampton
These are among the 800 objects and about 1,200 patterns which, along with tools, photographs and postcards, make up the Knitting Collections and Knitting Reference Library at the University of...
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Research intelligence - Bigger, faster, longer
Wellcome chief pleased with outcome of medical trust’s new super-awards. Paul Jump reports
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2 June 2011
Doctor ‘No Jobs’ - Too many white coats, not enough posts
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Do more to embrace the wide world, Nafsa urges North American institutions
The prospects for expanding international higher education opportunities in North America “may seem pretty grim”, but there has never been a more important time to promote them – “for our society and...
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Tara Brabazon: Just-in-case learning, just in time
Education is never wasted, no matter what business leaders say, argues Tara Brabazon
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Grace and disfavour: Willetts earns Oxford and Cambridge no-confidence votes
A campaign for a nationwide vote of “no confidence” in the government’s higher education reforms has been launched by a group of academics and students at the University of Oxford.
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Former London v-c steps up as ill health forces Offa director to stand down
The former vice-chancellor of the University of London, Sir Graeme Davies, has taken over as director for fair access after Sir Martin Harris was forced to step down to undergo treatment for cancer.
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Inside Higher Ed: Rejecting Double Blind
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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RCUK and Hefce step up push for open access
Research Councils UK and the Higher Education Funding Council for England have agreed to work together to advance the transition to open-access publishing of research.
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Employers make £100 pay offer
Higher education employers have offered staff a £100 pay rise for the 2011-12 academic year.
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With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918
A.W. Purdue examines how the Western Allies went from underdogs to victors in the space of a year
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Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism
Deborah Rogers finds 'fictionish' flair in tales of the erotic lives of 19th-century radicals
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Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema
There were two types of multiple moviegoers in the late 1960s: those who boasted of the number of times they had seen The Sound of Music and those who slipped in at the back of every available...