University of Leeds - Hydrogen breakthrough
Researchers believe they have opened the door to the new hydrogen economy by finding an energy-efficient way to make the element out of used vegetable oil. Scientists at the University of Leeds...
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University of Sheffield - Who said reality TV is stupid?
An Indian student who won the chance to study in the UK in a reality TV show has graduated with a first-class degree. Caezaan Keshvani read functional genomics and stem-cell science at the University...
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University of Bedfordshire - Be all you can be
The aspirations of young people are to be raised through sport in a partnership between a university and the Dame Kelly Holmes Legacy Trust. The University of Bedfordshire has pledged to raise £25,...
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University of East Anglia - Survival of the promiscuous
Female birds may increase their offspring's chances of survival by being unfaithful to their partners, a study suggests. In many species, females pair up with specific mates who helps raise their...
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Odds and quads
Although this skull was once said to belong to the mythical Aboriginal creature known as a bunyip, it was identified by the naturalist William Sharp Macleay (1792-1865) as nothing but a horse,...
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Grant Winners
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE REPLACEMENT, REFINEMENT AND REDUCTION OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCH
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Blog confidential: The Exploitation Game
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: The exploitation game
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Appointments
University of CaliforniaRosie MeekA scholar who entered academia "by accident" is heading across the Atlantic to begin a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of California, San Diego. Rosie Meek,...
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Valley of death
Boredom, fear and bloodshed: Duncan Wu on a provocatively frank view of the war in Afghanistan
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The Week in Higher Education
They are used to being lauded as masters of their trade, but novelists such as Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan have been subjected to a withering attack by a leading critic. Gabriel Josipovici,...
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Funding cuts will bring some down but not all will ride into valley of death, v-cs predict
Institution heads cite 'intransigent staff' as one of their greatest constraints, writes John Morgan
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Split-delivery 'sandwich' courses may offer best intellectual nourishment
Universities could split the delivery of undergraduate degrees, with some students starting off at teaching-led institutions and finishing at research-intensive universities.The proposal has been put...
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I swear I am just doing my job
Academic proposes 'Hippocratic oaths' for scholars and managers. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Read all about your course - if you really want to, that is
Students are being given more information, but many don't seek it out. Rebecca Attwood reports
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UCU prepares for strike ballot on jobs and pay
The University and College Union is preparing for industrial action after the latest round of national talks on pay and job security. The five higher education unions met with the Universities and...