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The Royal Institution has scrapped efforts to ask academics to sign an agreement if they want to use its trademarked term “Christmas Lectures”.

V-c warns of credit crunch over funding plan

‘Big community’ yet to be reached by prestigious programme, study finds

David Willetts has announced £85 million in funding to provide equipment in three of the “eight great technologies” being targeted to drive growth.

The South East Physics Network, created five years ago to counteract a decline in the subject in the English region, has launched its second phase.

Smaller institutions unlikely to benefit from revised low-cost lending terms

Higher degree holders may face as much of a struggle to find jobs as those with first degrees, Higher Education Statistics Agency data indicate

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The Medical Schools Council has announced a project to widen participation in medicine and improve university selection processes in the subject.

A former director of research at England’s funding council has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of Canterbury Christ Church University.

Applicant takes Kent to tribunal over doctorate criterion