Campus round-up
University of GloucestershireSave the planet (and some cash)Plans for young people to help with projects promoting environmental sustainability in exchange for a discount on tuition fees will be...
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Odds and quads
This brass desk set embellished with ammunition shells belonged to Lieutenant General George Francis Milne (1866-1948), Commander-in-Chief of the British Salonika Army during the First World War.
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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15 December 2011
Blooming marvellous - Dutch plan to grow prize specimens
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Soas takes legal steps to end occupation
The School of Oriental and African Studies has begun legal proceedings to end an occupation of one of its buildings.
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Hints of Higgs boson 'set scientific world agog’
“Tantalising hints” have been discovered of the fabled Higgs boson – but the data are not yet strong enough to make any conclusive statements about its existence.
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Course to address dearth of physics teachers
Thirty higher education institutions are to offer a new teacher training programme in physics and mathematics, it has been announced.
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New retraction of paper by husband and wife research team
Another paper authored by University of Manchester professor Sylvia Bulfone-Paus has been retracted – but this one does not feature the Russian postdoctoral researchers blamed for misconduct that led...
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Queen Mary academics pass latest ‘no confidence’ vote in Willetts
The senate of Queen Mary, University of London, has become the latest academic body to pass a vote of no confidence in universities and science minister David Willetts.
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About-face by Oxford University Press
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Pull the ladder up: a third of graduates want fewer uni places
A survey has revealed that graduates are more likely to support increased tuition fees and a reduction in the number of university places. Thirty per cent of graduates believe that opportunities to...
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Journalism academics blame newsrooms, not classrooms, for press scandals
University journalism courses are not responsible for the industry’s ethical failings, such as the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, journalism lecturers have told the Leveson inquiry
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Open for business secretary: Cable’s message to world on visa reforms
The business secretary has attempted to send a message overseas that UK higher education is planning for “long-term growth” in international markets despite recent changes to student visa rules.Vince...
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Prizes and catapults: government unveils innovation and research strategy
The government will fund more inducement prizes to solve interdisciplinary challenges as part of its new innovation and research strategy.
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News in brief
United StatesOccupy that! See you in courtAround two dozen protesters are suing university leaders over their mistreatment at the hands of the police during the recent Occupy demonstrations. The...