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Postgraduate studyBIS launches review of provisionViews are being sought from the sector about the state of postgraduate provision. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) formally...
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Why offline? It's very personal
Desire to protect status and student contact fuels resistance to e-learning. Rebecca Attwood writes
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Grant winners
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILAward winner: J.S.O. EvansInstitution: Durham UniversityValue: £15,613Powder diffraction and Rietveld Refinement School 2010Award winner: F....
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Long-overdue policy points
John Beddington welcomes Hefce's plans to recognise and reward academic work that informs policymaking in the REF
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Collegiate spirit drives us to help advance the academic enterprise
Administrative staff do not deserve demonisation because they too are committed to the university's unique mission, argues David Allen
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Daytime TV: All too human
Gary Day finds nature thrilling but is filled with gloom by our perpetual desire to reinvent ourselves
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Top institutions in chemistry
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 1999-June 2009
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Down with scholars!
Our vice-chancellor is to head up a brand new organisation called UMAS (University Managers Against Scholarship).Speaking to The Poppletonian earlier this week, he explained that membership of UMAS...
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Is a G&T growth enabling?
Sally Feldman's mentoring sessions don't follow rules, and that's no bad thing
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Research intelligence: 'You must spread the word'
RCUK head warns that people need to know the benefits of public investment in research. Zoë Corbyn reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Postgrads deserve better
The social and personal-development needs of students who study for higher degrees must be taken more seriously
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From where I sit - Teaching is half the battle
A friend of mine who decided to go back to university to do a postgraduate teaching degree in her mid-forties recently withdrew from the course after barely a semester. She didn't think the course's...
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Simon Thirgood, 1962-2009
An ecologist who influenced conservation policy from the Scottish grouse moors to the Serengeti has died.Simon Thirgood was born in Liberia on 6 December 1962 and brought up in Vancouver, where his...
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University of Oxford - SIM city
A mobile-phone service launched by the University of Oxford will provide maps, contacts and news to students and visitors, plus travel information, podcasts and information on library books. Unlike...