University of Leeds - All the right moves
A website has been launched to help international staff moving to British universities. The site, created as part of a project led by the University of Leeds, aims to provide foreign academics with...
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University of Reading - Chocolate brownie points
Chocoholics can rest assured that researchers are working to ensure the continued production of their favourite food. A five-year research project at the University of Reading will investigate the...
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University of Bristol - Gene genies heal broken hearts
Gene therapy could be an effective way to improve survival rates among heart attack patients, research funded by the British Heart Foundation suggests. Costanza Emanueli, BHF senior research fellow...
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University of Bedfordshire - Ivory Coast, ivory tower
The Ivory Coast has announced that its team will train at the University of Bedfordshire in the run-up to the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The West African nation has signed a memorandum of...
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Liverpool/Sheffield - Bytes and battles
An electronic archive of manuscripts chronicling the Hundred Years War has been created by academics at two institutions. The archive, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and...
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University of Strathclyde - Superbug kryptonite
A Scottish research company is designing a new generation of antibiotics using academic expertise to combat drug-resistant bacteria such as the hospital "superbug" methicillin-resistant...
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UHI Millennium Institute - Fat is a scientific issue
A research unit looking at the impact of fat on the development of disease is to be established at the UHI Millennium Institute. The centre at the prospective University of the Highlands and Islands...
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University of St Andrews - Quid pro quo
A £50 million project will establish a direct link between the University of St Andrews and a local secondary school. A new building for Madras College will be constructed on university land, and in...
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University of East London - Go East
A group of disadvantaged young people from East London have produced an award-winning interactive guide to the area. It uses photographs, video footage and online comment to present the most exciting...
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Essex/Royal Holloway - Dishonourable members
Attitudes towards politicians and their levels of honesty and integrity have changed surprisingly little despite the high-profile MPs' expenses scandal. That is the finding of a study by researchers...
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Odds and quads
Dom Sylvester Houedard (1924-92), often known as DSH, served with British military intelligence in Asia before becoming a Benedictine monk at Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire.While running the...
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Haiti research trip provokes academic-rights aftershock
Row erupts over US college's rejection of master's work done after travel ban. John Gill reports
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New discipline calls for an end to second-class male
Male studies will help fight 'pervasive misandry' in society, say scholars. Matthew Reisz reports
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THE World University Rankings
According to Janez Potocnik, former European Commissioner for science and research, world university rankings are now used by politicians "as a measurement of their nation's economic strength and...
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Overseas briefing
United StatesPay up and play the gameCalifornia's hard-up state universities are diverting funds meant for classrooms and students to cover land deals and construction projects, according to reports...