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The British Federation of Women Graduates welcomes the news that Universities UK has withdrawn its controversial guidance on voluntary gender segregation of audiences at the request of guest speakers...
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AHRC鈥檚 misguided gamble
Louis Goddard is right to condemn the Arts and Humanities Research Council鈥檚 doctoral training partnership scheme (鈥淎HRC鈥檚 flawed doctoral dating game has left big names on the shelf鈥, Opinion, 19/26...
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The case for more isn鈥檛 so simple, Mr Willetts
No one denies the wider benefits of a university degree. However, in his advocacy of an expansionist higher education policy (鈥淲hy the cap no longer fits鈥, 2 January), David Willetts, the...
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An apology and a New Year鈥檚 resolution!
Our editor writes:Dear Reader,Over the decades, The Poppletonian has kept its readers up to date with all the major happenings within our own university and within the wider world of higher education...
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The week in higher education - 9 January 2014
The notion that the First World War was a 鈥渕isbegotten shambles鈥 is a myth perpetuated by 鈥渓eft-wing academics鈥, according to Michael Gove, executing his own Schlieffen Plan to win a culture war over...
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Ring-fenced science budget under threat
V-cs fail to get David Willetts鈥 commitment to protect research spending
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Use 鈥榠mpact agenda鈥 to prove value, social sciences urged
LSE scholars call for 鈥榮horter, better, faster, free鈥 studies and bigger share of research funding
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Social media key to getting ahead, PhD students hear
Skills, reputation and peer networks can be built online even when stuck in the lab
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Campus in Focus - Queen Mary, University of London
A fresh era dawns for one of the Russell Group鈥檚 newest, and least typical, members. Plus the latest campus news from around the UK
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A paper-thin line
The recent spate of plagiarism scandals in Germany 鈥 which have toppled some senior politicians 鈥 has had an unexpected side-effect. Some academic researchers are reportedly so frightened of...
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Austerity is driving institutions closer together
Mergers and system restructures are increasing across Europe as a result of funding cuts
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Call for better protocols to cut waste in biomedical research
Research conduct, reporting and management needs overhaul, says Lancet study
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Innovation鈥檚 core values
Britain needs Fraunhofer centres as well as Catapults if the 鈥榠nvention revolution鈥 is to materialise, asserts Tim Holt
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Ciaran Driver, Andreas Hess, Karen McAulay, A.鈥塛. Purdue and Sharon Wheeler...
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! A World Without World War I, by Richard Ned Lebow
Richard J. Evans considers the comfort of the counterfactual