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Elements of mystery

The international hunt for chemistry’s ‘missing links’ makes for an engrossing tale, finds Alan Rocke

ɫ��ֱ�� Best University Workplace Survey: staff unheard?

Early results show 40% of respondents feel ignored

Save your work – give software engineers a career track

Academy risks research future by failing to give credit where it’s due

The week in higher education - 15 August 2013

Since taking over last year at the Office for Fair Access, Les Ebdon’s tactic for avoiding publicity has been to make all his pronouncements as boring as possible. But that does not keep people off...

Cleared dean resigns after Cardiff restructure

Paul Morgan, who was cleared of research misconduct earlier this year, has resigned as the dean and head of Cardiff University’s School of Medicine, citing an inability to work under the university’s...

Unintended results

As A-level results day dawns, Michael Gove’s plans for the exam’s fundamental reform draw ever closer to fruition. But will they endanger the traditional values he seeks to promote? Jack Grove...

Vulvanomics

Shahidha Bari welcomes a thoughtful look at ordinary anatomy and extraordinary anxiety

Oxbridge applications rule ‘could be challenged’

Oxford and Cambridge agreement could amount to breach of competition law, say experts

Girls score higher than male coursemates on Ucas points

But data show that grades in each subject may be rather more equal

University suspends visa sponsorship programme

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Odds and quads - 15 August 2013

Ceramic cabbages, knitted cauliflowers and caterpillars, birds made of stone and metal, dancing daffodils, even a hive of porcelain bees: all formed part of the allotment created by the Manchester...

Piled Higher and Deeper by Jorge Cham - 15 August 2013

News in brief - 15 August 2013

Widening participationStill a struggle below poverty lineChildren from the poorest families remain about half as likely to enter higher education as their more affluent peers, according to government...

News in brief - 15 August 2013

United StatesPolitical squeezeA major US funding agency will not allocate cash to any new political science research for the remainder of 2013. The National Science Foundation took the decision less...

Mike Morwood, 1950-2013

An archaeologist who discovered the bones of a “hobbit” in Indonesia, which may represent a completely new species of early human, has died