UHI Millennium Institute - Local decision-makers
A government consultation has opened to identify whether residents and businesses in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland believe they need a local university in their area. The consultation marks...
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Liverpool/Lincoln - Find the crib-biting point
"Crib-biting" and "wind-sucking" are being investigated by researchers. Experts from the University of Liverpool and the University of Lincoln are looking for horse owners to take part in their study...
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University of Glamorgan - Stars in their transatlantic eyes
Pupils are being encouraged to become the space scientists of the future via a project linking them with American students to explore the galaxy. The University of Glamorgan is pairing up local...
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Anglia Ruskin University - Safety first
An East Anglian university has been recognised for its health and safety excellence. Anglia Ruskin University received a level 5 Quality Safety Audit (QSA) Award from the Royal Society for the...
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Birmingham City/Birmingham - Images of partnership
Work by photography students has gone on display at a university gallery, thanks to a new collaboration. Function, which runs until 9 January 2011, is the first of a four-year programme of...
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Royal Holloway, University of London - Promethean nursery
The spread of the earliest flowering plants may have been a result of the high incidence of fires in the distant past, scientists have hypothesised. Angiosperms evolved at the beginning of the...
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University of Leeds - Bauman of honour
An institute has been established dedicated to Zygmunt Bauman, renowned for his work on consumerism, ethics, sociology and political philosophy. The Bauman Institute at the University of Leeds was...
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University of Dundee - Team effort
A Scottish university has teamed up with the Institute of Sport and Exercise to help provide better sports facilities to students and staff. The Dundee University Sports Union has entered a...
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Survivor's tale
A Sudanese woman who was abducted and held as a slave is to tell her story at a conference in the UK. The autobiography of Mende Nazer, Slave (2008), inspired the recent Channel 4 and Slate Films...
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Odds and quads
This cast of Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese twins", can be found in the Mutter Museum in the US.
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More, faster, face-to-face: NUS demands on feedback
Charter calls for students to determine the format of tutors' responses. Hannah Fearn reports
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Goodbye Roberts, hello Hobson as skills training cash comes to an end
Vitae conference told of hard choices ahead over postgraduate development. Hannah Fearn writes
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Beware loss of respect for doctorates, UK told
The reputation of the UK PhD could be undermined by too great an expansion of professional doctorates, according to international experts.At an energetic debate at the Vitae conference in Manchester...
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News in brief
PakistanSecond v-c snatched at gunpointA vice-chancellor has been kidnapped by gunmen on his way to work - the second such case in less than a year. The target was Ajmal Khan, vice-chancellor of...
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Cut state apron strings, European academy told
Universities must diversify income streams in an era of austerity, EUA warns. Hannah Fearn reports