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NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHHealth Technology Assessment programme鈥 Award winner: Emma Loveman鈥 Institution: University of Southampton鈥 Value: 拢150,850Treatments for idiopathic pulmonary...
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A home of one's own
As Feminist Review celebrates its 100th issue, Mary Evans assesses its lasting contribution to academic debate
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Debt collection, but without the defaults and the destitution
Bruce Chapman, who pioneered Australia's income-contingent student loans, is keen to see the system applied in other spheres
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A case of double Dutch
Nicola Dandridge is sceptical of press reports on the boom in British students heading to the Netherlands for a university education
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Lead on UUK - we'll follow
Our vice-chancellor has described himself as "gobsmacked" after learning from research by the Leadership Foundation for 糖心Vlog that Universities UK is not regarded by academics as...
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Concordat will not call for new integrity overseer
Research funders鈥 long-awaited 鈥渃oncordat鈥 on research integrity deliberately steers clear of 鈥渉eavy-handed regulation鈥, one of its authors has said.
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Leader: Charge of the elite brigade
In a sector beset by financial uncertainty, the gap between the richest and the poorest institutions looks set to widen
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Research Intelligence - Body of data is the envy of the world
UK Biobank offers treasure trove of genetic information to researchers. Paul Jump reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
鈥 Higher education has a new and unlikely champion: Noel Edmonds. The man responsible for Deal or No Deal and Mr Blobby has apparently offered to fund the doctoral studies of a Canterbury Christ...
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From where I sit - Time's not on our side
There were problems with the Japanese national unified college entrance examinations this year. In these tests, held over one weekend in January, final-year high school students sat multiple-choice...
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Odds and quads
This cast reveals the circulation within the heart of a greyhound. It was made by injecting coloured liquid acrylic into structures such as blood vessels and air-filled spaces and then allowing it to...
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Appointments
BPPGraham GaddesThe new chief operating officer of private higher education provider BPP has revealed that it was the opportunity to "influence the future of education on a global basis" that...
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Semi-fictional character
He was driven to write an acclaimed debut novel in stolen hours, but lecturer, researcher and scholarly biographer Christopher Bigsby is content never to call himself a 鈥榬eal writer鈥
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The history boys and girls
Felipe Fern谩ndez-Armesto recalls a golden age when learning was treasured