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News of the collapse of merger talks between Bradford University and Bradford College has caused little surprise in the sector, writes Tony Tysome. University managers who have been through the...
News of the collapse of merger talks between Bradford University and Bradford College has caused little surprise in the sector, writes Tony Tysome. University managers who have been through the...
De Montfort University could face mass legal action from as many as 240 architecture students after it lost professional accreditation for a number of its architecture courses as a result of low...
Alison Goddard reports on revelations and revels at the annual meeting of British philosophers in Belfast Sir Karl Popper, the philosopher who devised a test to distinguish between science and...
Alison Goddard reports on revelations and revels at the annual meeting of British philosophers in Belfast A single professional society for UK philosophers was launched last week in Belfast. The body...
Alison Goddard reports on revelations and revels at the annual meeting of British philosophers in Belfast One in four British philosophers attended the philosophy conferences in Belfast, with numbers...
Sunderland University is to shed almost 50 staff in a bid to stave off a financial crisis caused by the concentration of research funds on a handful of institutions. Lecturers' union Natfhe...
The Natural Environment Research Council was wrong to cancel an entire grants round so hastily last year, says a critical report released by the Commons science and technology committee. The council...
The disappearance of Max, Glasgow University's bearded dragon, remains a mystery two weeks on. The iguana-like reptile was stolen from outside the zoology museum during a lunch hour, but neither a...
The "pedestrian pace" of academic research in many old universities makes it useless for the National Health Service, a senior paediatrician said last week. Sir David Hall, co-chair of the external...
An eyewitness to a crime with a faulty memory can seriously distort other witnesses' testimony if they discuss what they saw, research by Aberdeen University psychologists has revealed. Witnesses...
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