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Getting to know you
Engine of social progress“What local community?”Just one of the remarks made to our Town-Gown committee as they examined the university’s relationship with the city of Poppleton in the wake of survey...
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Research heavyweights deny ‘ganging up’
A new grouping of southeast institutions accounts for a third of EPSRC-funded work. Paul Jump reports
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Can Hefce still land a ‘big beast’?
Bahram Bekhradnia on funding chiefs’ hunt for a new leader
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Research intelligence - Northern apprentice aims to become master
Huddersfield fosters entrepreneurial and academic excellence side by side. Paul Jump writes
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Kick-starters: knowledge transfer in practice
More than half of academics are either not aware of universities’ knowledge transfer services or do not use them, a survey has found
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Saloua Raouda Choucair, Tate Modern, London
Shahidha Bari traces the development of Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair, who, at 97, gets her first major museum exhibition
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For richer, for poorer
Husband-and-wife academics debate the merits of the research excellence framework
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Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World Without Darwin by Peter J. Bowler
Simon Underdown discusses an evolutionary counterfactual
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Christoph Bode, Sandra Leaton Gray, Tim Hall, George McKay and Peter J. Smith...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The spirit of enterprise is everywhere at Huddersfield
Entrepreneurial and academic excellence are pursued side by side, and the dividends are clear to see
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Social arts trample liberal arts
The divisive country-club culture at ‘Midwest University’ that places status above study and raises partying to a vocation
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Ukoln hit by job losses as Jisc removes funding
Data infrastructure centre ‘decimated’, says 16-year veteran
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No direction: UEL left rudderless after v-c and two senior managers resign
Two pro vice-chancellors at the University of East London left the institution within a month, it has emerged, adding to the departure on health grounds of the vice-chancellor, Patrick McGhee....
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Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O. Wilson
Michelle Harvey agrees with inspiring advice to young science researchers to never forget what initially attracted them to the discipline