Neuroscience and slippery socks

UCL chosen for neuroscience centre
University College London has beaten Oxford and Cambridge to win funding for a neuroscience institute that will lead international efforts to conduct specialist research in brain and behaviour
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Research

New secure medical laboratory step closer
Plans to build a controversial £500m high security medical research laboratory in the heart of London are now in full swing after the architects HOK won the bid to design it
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International education

Milton Friedman gives Chicago a headache
The economist's fans plan to set up an institute in his name. Not everyone approves, writes Kurt Jacobsen
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Improbable research

They got to grips with why socks slip
New government moves to clamp down on bogus colleges and "fake" students have drawn praise from university and student organisations
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Comment

Everyone needs the chance to leave home to study
Estelle Morris: Everything you learn at university - not just what you are taught in the lecture hall - raises aspirations and prepares you for the rest of your life

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