A smoother polar passage
A new body aims to help UK researchers navigate the pitfalls encountered when working in the Arctic, writes Zoë Corbyn
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Grant winners
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCILThe MRC is providing about £7 million to establish three regional hubs that will give UK researchers access to high-throughput DNA sequencing machines. The cutting-edge...
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Hubs of 21st-century life
Santiago Iñiguez outlines the ways in which universities must move to adapt to a changing world
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Uncle Sam can teach us a thing or two about unfair student finance
Funding trends have crossed the Atlantic, but the UK should learn from, not slavishly repeat, America's mistakes, says Donald E. Heller
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Think-tank doublethink
Policy Exchange wants to inflict a bankrupt ideology on London's students and communities, argues Cliff Snaith
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The week in higher education
"Poet quits over Bard example" punned The Sun, as it reported that Derek Walcott had withdrawn from the race to become the University of Oxford professor of poetry. The Nobel prizewinner pulled out...
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Peer review teeters as experts struggle with burden of work
System threatened because academics lack time to assess research grant proposals. Zoe Corbyn writes
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Fine-tuned data show UK challenging US as the top overseas draw
Britain is hot on America's heels when student nationality is considered. John Gill reports
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Grants and pants - Lord May on why women are less thrusting
The Government's former Chief Scientific Adviser has come up with a controversial hypothesis to explain why female academics apply for fewer research grants than their male counterparts - they lack a...
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Union calls off its ballot for industrial action
The University and College Union has called off its ballot for industrial action after universities threatened to challenge the legality of the vote.The ballot may resume in the autumn term, the...
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Savings drive hits teaching and places
Cuts in extra student numbers compound grief of slashed teaching budgets. Melanie Newman writes
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Expect few new titles in library as sterling's fall pounds acquisitions
40% of university libraries plan cuts to book and journal purchases next year. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Senate House library fends off UCL takeover proposal and sticks with status quo
University College London has failed in its bid to take over Senate House Library amid fears that the move would "spell the end" of the federal University of London. The library's financial...
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Physics to feel pinch as STFC comes up short
The Science and Technology Facilities Council has outlined additional cuts in its research programme after it received a financial allocation for 2009-10 that was £12 million less than anticipated.In...
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ESRC puts doctoral training in few hands
Shift to focus postgraduate work in 25 centres concerns learned societies. Zoe Corbyn reports