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This vast 50-tonne steam hammer, once used to reshape steel bolts, was built in Bolton in 1917, and remained in active service at the Atlas Forge, opposite what is now the University of Bolton's...
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New network for advisers offering words to the wise
University Alliance forms group for policy experts assisting vice-chancellors. Hannah Fearn reportsThey are often accused of playing politics, but now vice-chancellors are behaving more like MPs than...
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Beautiful minds converge to inspire Nobel prizewinners of the future
Arab nation aims to light a beacon for education at the third Festival of Thinkers. Matthew Reisz reports
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Overseas briefing
United StatesMillion-dollar men and womenThe highest-paid private university president in the US received a pay package worth more than $1.5 million (£900,000) in 2007-08. The Chronicle of Higher...
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Crisis talks: part-timers pose threat to standards
Rise of casual labour in the academy is dangerous, conference hears. Phil Baty reports from Shanghai
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Grant Winners
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCILAward winner: N.J.K. HowdenInstitution: Cranfield UniversityValue: £93,529Modelling water-quality response to climate and large-scale land-use change using the...
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Never out of date
Tackling both the theory and practice of love, Barbara Bloomfield says you have to be proactive to find the right person
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Appointments
A new pro vice-chancellor has been appointed at the University of Bath. Bernard Morley, currently director of the Graduate School of Life Sciences and Medicine at Imperial College London, will take...
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Reefer madness
The Home Secretary's decision to sack David Nutt for his remarks about cannabis was misjudged, insists Lord Krebs
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Misguided philistines in a relationship that is doomed to failure
While its aim to widen access is welcome, the strategy document Higher Ambitions is based on a fallacy, says Vernon Bogdanor
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Core Papers on Catastrophic Climate Change
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, Research Fronts 2004-09
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The Week in Higher Education
Students' laziness could be laid bare by a new system for recording their achievements at university, it has been claimed. Vice-chancellors met last week to discuss progress in the trial of the...
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Unions angry over breaches to collective salary negotiations
Some universities have implemented salary rises despite the lack of a pay deal. John Morgan writes
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When it comes to pornography, vulgar humanities are happy to talk turkey
When Alan McKee submitted a paper on pornography to a leading social science journal, he did not attempt to spare readers' blushes.But the language he used did more than raise eyebrows: it earned him...
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FEC scrutinised as deficit lingers
BIS asks why £2bn gap between research costs and income persists. Melanie Newman reports