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Ireland’s private leader aims to be accommodating

Institution targets untapped foreign market

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Engine of social progress“What local community?”Just one of the remarks made to our Town-Gown committee as they examined the university’s relationship with the city of Poppleton in the wake of survey...

Research heavyweights deny ‘ganging up’

A new grouping of southeast institutions accounts for a third of EPSRC-funded work. Paul Jump reports

Can Hefce still land a ‘big beast’?

Bahram Bekhradnia on funding chiefs’ hunt for a new leader

Research intelligence - Northern apprentice aims to become master

Huddersfield fosters entrepreneurial and academic excellence side by side. Paul Jump writes

Kick-starters: knowledge transfer in practice

More than half of academics are either not aware of universities’ knowledge transfer services or do not use them, a survey has found

Saloua Raouda Choucair, Tate Modern, London

Shahidha Bari traces the development of Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair, who, at 97, gets her first major museum exhibition

For richer, for poorer

Husband-and-wife academics debate the merits of the research excellence framework

Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World Without Darwin by Peter J. Bowler

Simon Underdown discusses an evolutionary counterfactual

Christoph Bode, Sandra Leaton Gray, Tim Hall, George McKay and Peter J. Smith...

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

The spirit of enterprise is everywhere at Huddersfield

Entrepreneurial and academic excellence are pursued side by side, and the dividends are clear to see

Social arts trample liberal arts

The divisive country-club culture at ‘Midwest University’ that places status above study and raises partying to a vocation