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Funding and donationsArchive of pain nets £1m grantThe world’s oldest archive devoted to the Holocaust and the Nazi era has secured a £1 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to safeguard its...
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Praise for Willetts over birth cohort data
Willetts’ support for birth cohort study wins unlikely fans at forum. Matthew Reisz reports
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Campus round-up
Remember themEducation experts will lead a project to send two pupils and a teacher from every state secondary school to the battlefields of the First World War. Working with the Education Travel...
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Odds and quads
These images represent highlights from a collection of almost 200 rare books, incunabula and manuscripts donated by the businessman Henry Davis (1897-1977) to the University of Ulster.
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Plantation ‘poppadoms’ on digital menu, at last
Fire-damaged 17th-century survey of Northern Ireland unlocked at last. Matthew Reisz reports
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Occupied thoughts in diary form
Sheffield film to draw on late academic’s first-hand account of occupied Paris. Matthew Reisz reports
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News in brief
AustraliaTesting times for TeqsaAustralia’s new higher education regulator faces a test of its powers after it emerged that two private institutions have challenged some of its decisions. Stott’s...
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Let’s give it another year, says Delhi
V-c points to structural reform’s intellectual and vocational benefits. John Morgan reports
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Copy that: it would be an honour
The first step in tackling plagiarism in Japan is making students understand what it is, as it is a Western concept that does not fit well within Asian culture. To describe it, the Japanese word...
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IntoUniversity: an aptly named charity
Educational charity in the vanguard of university outreach is getting results. Jack Grove reports
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Research intelligence - One hundred years of gratitude for the MRC
A century on, MRC has captured the public’s heart and the state’s wallet. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Grant winners
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Karen PolizziInstitution: Imperial College LondonValue: £108,160How does yeast Golgi organisation contribute to protein glycosylation?...
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THE Scholarly Web - Consumers v producers
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Awards and promotions
Aston UniversitySimon GreenThe new executive dean of Aston University’s School of Languages and Social Sciences, Simon Green, said that it was a “huge privilege” to take on the role, while noting the...
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Obituary - Sir Patrick Nairne
A distinguished civil servant who went on to become the second master of St Catherine’s College, Oxford and the second chancellor of the University of Essex has died.Patrick Nairne was born into a...