Rock-solid way to sweeten proposal
Session at ESRC festival to reveal secrets of a successful grant application. Paul Jump reports
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Loughborough denies sleep unit is trapped in nightmare scenario
But professor claims Sleep Research Centre has been sidelined by REF strategy. Paul Jump reports
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Cure capitalism to make markets by the people, for the people
Academy called upon to help correct increasingly corrupt economic system. Matthew Reisz reports
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Greater value than money
Innovation oughtn't mean just profit-making technology - there is a subtler, social sort, explains Nick Petford
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If those who pay the pipers call the tune, make the fact public
Universities must disclose scholars' financial conflicts of interest or the integrity of faculty opinion will be jeopardised, says Cary Nelson
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'Breakaway professor' shock
One of our leading professors has admitted that he might be leaving his present post at our university to set up his own private college.Speaking to our reporter Keith Ponting (30), Professor Gordon...
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REF casts a shadow over teddy bears' picnic
When the 2014 research excellence framework was being devised to take into account real-world impact, relocating a long-established university nursery to make way for such research was probably not...
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Research intelligence - Continental rift over stem cell research
Funding of research using material from embryos reignites controversy, writes Elizabeth Gibney
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The week in higher education
• "Stinking rich" colleges at the University of Cambridge are branching out into some unusual commercial activities, according to The Times columnist Richard Morrison, in an article published on 22...
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Leader: Want gold? Let's see some cash
The move to open access should not mean cuts to research: the government and industry could pitch in to cover the transition
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From Where I Sit - Big Bong theory
Two memoirs by Indian scholars who spent many years at Oxbridge offer salutary insights into life at the ancient universities. Tapan Raychaudhuri, author of The World in Our Time and a professor of...
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Odds and quads
These items form part of the records of the Mission to Seafarers, now held by Hull University Archives at the Hull History Centre.
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Appointments
University of LincolnJohn DrakakisJohn Drakakis, the new visiting professor of English studies at the University of Lincoln, said he was "flattered" to be offered the role. Professor Drakakis, who is...
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Accelerated learning
As students cram for scarce undergraduate places, private institutions proliferate and research outputs rise rapidly, will China’s impressive growth spurts bring gains in quality as well as quantity...