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21 Oct 2011: The current economic climate is encouraging many outside academia to assess universities’ impact in increasingly narrow, utilitarian terms, concentrating only on economic benefit or benefit to individual graduates and their employability.

21 Dec 2011: The key message is that the UK government, like many around the world, now recognises that economic measures such as GDP do not provide adequate information about a society’s progress. ... The study’s lead author, Professor Felicia Huppert of the

11 Aug 2011: Scientists have identified 29 new genetic variants linked to multiple sclerosis, providing key insights into the biology of a very debilitating neurological

2 Mar 2011: Each talk aims to give audiences the opportunity to hear from, and question, leading public figures about some of the most pressing issues affecting the political and economic life of the

1 Jul 2011: He discussed  the issue of Impact, arguing that the arts and humanities have far more economic and cultural impact than they are credited with.

10 Jan 2011: In most cases, their disappearance is a by-product of globalisation, or rapid social and economic change.

9 Sep 2011: The team’s study may also help scientists’ understanding of evolutionary processes such as biological adaptation and how culture and economic developments affect human biology.

14 Jan 2011: Preventing virus transmission in chickens should reduce the economic impact of the disease and reduce the risk posed to people exposed to the infected birds. ... This work could also form the basis for improving economic and food security in many regions

15 Sep 2011: After a brief dip in numbers during the First World War, the economic depression of the 1920s and 1930s forced more women back into service, aided by hostile government benefits policies

2 Nov 2011: But one freezing January day I resolved to put to the test what Roland Barthes called the “degree zero” of writing.