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ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILAward winner: R.A. OliverInstitution: University of CambridgeValue: £593,937Materials World Network to optimise the growth of InGaN quantum dots...
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A rush of endorphins
Before music became his life, a university writing course provided Liam Fray with creative stimulation and excitement
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Con-Lib show promises the academy thrills, chills and bellyaches
Students, fees and cuts will dominate the Westminster soap opera's higher education plotlines. Anna Fazackerley offers an early review
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Solid grounding: the humanities roots that support our STEMs
Donald L. Drakeman on science's need to look to less measurable but possibly more meaningful disciplines for insights and guidance
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Little Britain must expand
If the academy is to survive, it needs domestic support to take the offensive internationally, argues Anthony Seldon
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Hot papers in neuroscience
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, January 1999-December 2009
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The week in higher education
The "hardest exam in the world", in which the cream of Oxford graduates are challenged to write for three hours about a single word, has been dropped. For almost a century the exam has been set as...
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Willetts: I come not to impose, but to distil
Universities minister wants to learn from and work with sector, but cuts beckon. John Morgan writes
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Lib Dem division on fees abolition
Party leaders think election pledge is 'nonsense', UUK chief executive claims. John Morgan reports
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Cleared but under a cloud, lecturer ignites freedom row
Academic caused offence by showing a paper on bats' sexual practices, writes Hannah Fearn
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Editor sacked as journal introduces peer review
The editor-in-chief of the controversial journal Medical Hypotheses has been sacked.Bruce Charlton, professor of theoretical medicine at the University of Buckingham, was dismissed as editor after...
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Mission groups call for higher fees
NUS and UCU dissent as sector argues for a greater graduate contribution. Rebecca Attwood reports
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V-c dismisses pay demands as 'irrelevant' in face of cuts
Institutions must explain to staff the implications of the severe reductions. John Morgan reports
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#loveHE
As part of our #loveHE campaign, ߣߣÊÓƵ has asked followers on Twitter to tell us why they love the academyThis week's tweet of the week is:You know you #loveHE too much when govt...
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Students forced to end sit-in, but vow to fight on
Philosophy students at Middlesex University have ended a sit-in protest over the closure of their courses after management took out a High Court injunction against them.About 50 protesters began an...