Sowing seeds of prosperity
With its bigger budget, the DFID is promoting alliances focusing on development research, climate change, health and economic growth, says Zoe Corbyn
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Grant winners
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL- Award winner (institution): E.G. Nisbet (Royal Holloway, University of London) and A.C. Manning (University of East Anglia)Value: £613,088The South Atlantic/...
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Juggling practice
New science supremo Adrian Smith is keen to balance his roles in science and higher education and public engagement
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Appointments
Mark Lansdale this week took over as head of the School of Psychology at the University of Leicester, joining from Nottingham Trent University. He is perhaps best known for research on how office...
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'Policymakers need to ask us the right questions'
Ministers and academics need a better dialogue to aid policy, review chair Janet Finch tells Zoe Corbyn
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Too early to learn a lesson
PGCert courses are valuable, but it is pointless to consider best practice without having practised, says Carrie Dunn
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We are stepping out of the ethical mainstream and into murky waters
A Bill allowing the creation of interspecies hybrids and reproductive cloning would bring UK science into disrepute, argues David Jones
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Lolita, lolly and lost girls
The young and vulnerable are powerless to resist the overt sexualisation used to sell us 'fun' brands like Virgin, writes Mary Evans
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'I was a football hooligan, so I had to break the law'
A law lecturer argues that ethics rules must sometimes allow researchers to act illegally in fieldwork. Melanie Newman writes
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Russell Group gets smaller share of council cash
The share of research council grant funding won by the Russell Group of 20 large research-intensive universities fell last year, according to an analysis. The smaller research-intensive universities...
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UCU uses law to demand RAE records
Union plans to make regular requests for records to prevent their being shredded, writes Zoe Corbyn
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REF citations database to cover conference data
The database that will be used to help assess the quality of academics' work under the system being set up to replace the research assessment exercise is to be expanded to improve the information it...
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Leeds rewards publication in top journals with bonus research time
UCU attacks plan to allow some academics to pass on teaching duties. Melanie Newman reports
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Part-timers deserve loans and grants, says v-c
The Government must start taking part-time students seriously and offer them the same support as full-timers, the vice-chancellor of Oxford Brookes University has said."There is an idea in central...
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Journals test software to catch cheats
Academic articles will, like student essays, be checked for plagiarism. John Gill reports